create a war file

Question

I want to create a war file for project. The code works fine for creating jar file. when I run the following ant build.xml it still gives the message jar file BUILD SUCCESSFULL.

<project name="struts-spring" basedir="../" default="all">
    <!-- Project settings -->
    <property name="project.title" value="Sufalam Struts 2 Tutorials"/>
    <property name="project.jar.file" value="struts-spring.jar"/>

      <path id="class.path">

     <fileset dir="lib">

       <include name="**/*.jar"/>

     </fileset>

     <fileset dir="libext">

       <include name="**/*.jar"/>

     </fileset>

      </path>

     <!-- Classpath for Project -->

     <path id="compile.classpath">

      <pathelement path ="lib/commons-beanutils.jar"/>

      <pathelement path ="lib/commons-digester.jar"/>

      <pathelement path ="lib/struts.jar"/>

      <pathelement path ="libext/servlet-api.jar"/>

      <pathelement path ="libext/catalina-ant.jar"/>

      <pathelement path ="classes"/>

      <pathelement path ="${classpath}"/>

     </path>

     <!-- Check timestamp on files -->

     <target name="prepare">

      <tstamp/>
      <copy
       file="src/struts.xml"
       todir="src/classes"/>


     </target>
     <!-- Copy any resource or configuration files -->

     <target name="resources">

      <copy todir="classes" includeEmptyDirs="no">

       <fileset dir="src/java">

       <patternset>

        <include name="**/*.conf"/>

        <include name="**/*.properties"/>

        <include name="**/*.xml"/>

       </patternset>

       </fileset>

      </copy>

     </target>

     <!-- Normal build of application -->

     <target name="compile" depends="prepare,resources">

      <javac srcdir="src" destdir="classes" 
                         debug="true" debuglevel="lines,vars,source">

       <classpath refid="class.path"/>

      </javac>

      <jar

      jarfile="lib/${project.jar.file}"

      basedir="classes"/>

     </target>
     <!-- Remove classes directory for clean build -->

     <target name="clean"

       description="Prepare for clean build">

       <delete dir="classes"/>

       <mkdir  dir="classes"/>

     </target>

     <!-- Build Javadoc documentation -->

     <target name="javadoc"

      description="Generate JavaDoc API docs">

      <delete dir="./doc/api"/>

      <mkdir dir="./doc/api"/>

      <javadoc sourcepath="./src/java"

       destdir="./doc/api"

       classpath="${servlet.jar}:${jdbc20ext.jar}"

       packagenames="*"

       author="true"

       private="true"

       version="true"

       windowtitle="${project.title} API Documentation"

       doctitle="&lt;h1&gt;${project.title}
                          Documentation (Version ${project.version})&lt;/h1&gt;"

       bottom="Copyright &#169; 2002">

       <classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>

      </javadoc>

     </target>

     <!-- Build entire project -->

     <target name="project" depends="clean,prepare,compile"/>

     <!-- Create binary distribution -->

     <target name="dist"

      description="Create binary distribution">

       <mkdir

      dir="${distpath.project}"/>

<!--       <jar

      jarfile="${distpath.project}/${project.distname}.jar"

      basedir="./classes"/>

       <copy

      file="${distpath.project}/${project.distname}.jar"

      todir="${distpath.project}"/>-->



       <war

      basedir="../"

      warfile="${distpath.project}/${project.distname}.war"

        webxml="web.xml"> </war>

        <copy file="${distpath.project}/${project.distname}.war"  todir="${distpath.project}"/>

      <!--<exclude name="${distpath.project}/${project.distname}.war"/>-->

    </target>

    <!-- Build project and create distribution-->
    <target name="all" depends="project"/>
</project>

please help me creating a war file. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I don't see you telling the war task what files to put in the war file. You may want to look at the examples here. Ant has fantastic documentation, I think.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/war.html

Here is an example of using the war task from the link above:

<war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="src/metadata/myapp.xml">
  <fileset dir="src/html/myapp"/>
  <fileset dir="src/jsp/myapp"/>
  <lib dir="thirdparty/libs">
    <exclude name="jdbc1.jar"/>
  </lib>
  <classes dir="build/main"/>
  <zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs"
          prefix="images"/>
</war>