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Example using build number in version string when building Android project via ant ?

We are using Hudson to automate our Android build. I need to incorporate the build number into the version string used in our app. Was wondering if anyone had an example of doing that before I (re?)invent that wheel. Obviously I need to replace a string value in one of our config files. ...

ant scripts for configuring a new machine with relevant software

A new developer machine needs a variety of software (e.g. java, eclipse, ANT, maven, SVN client), are there any scripts or tools which will set the environment / path variables after retreiving the software from binary distributions. ...

Generate MetaData with ANT

I have a folder structure that contains multiple javascript files, each of these files need a standard piece of text at the top = //@include "includes.js" Each folder needs to contain a file named includes.js that has an include entry for each file in its directory and and entry for the include file in its parent directory. I'm trying ...

how ANT script execute command for each file

I would like to use ant script set readonly for each file in the driectory but exec doesnt allow filelist, <target name="readonly"> <exec executable="attrib +r"> <fileset dir="${reset.root.dir}"> <include name="**/*" /> </fileset> </exec> </target> The type doesn't support the nested ...

Ant telnet is hanging on a simple task

<?xml version="1.0" ?> <project name="test" default="root"> <target name="telnet"> <telnet server="10.1.1.1"> <read>login:</read> <write>root</write> <read>password:</read> <write>${PASSWORD}</write> <read>#</read> <write>ls</write> <read>#</r...

How can I turn the structure of an XML file into a folder structure using ANT

I would like to be able to pass an XML file to an ANT build script and have it create a folder structure mimicking the nodal structure of the XML, using the build files parent directory as the root. For Example using: <root> <folder1> <folder1-1/> </folder1> <folder2/> <folder3> <folder3-1/> </fold...

I want to know how to deploy the war file in apache tomcat and make it to run

Hi all, I create a war file using apache ant and i wanted to deploy that .war file in tomcat and make it run can u people help me with the steps.. i m not clear abt it ...

ANT update version number in file but not in script

I'm currently working on a script that automatically increments version number. The version is in major.minor.build format so I can't use buildnumber. I've managed to increment the property in file like this: <propertyfile file="./build.properties"> <entry key="ver.minor" type="int" operation="+" value="1" pattern="0"/> </propertyfile...

Publish WTP project in Eclipse from Ant

Is there any way to have an Ant script running in Eclipse publish a WTP project? I want my ant script to perform some tasks, then kick off the publish as if I had done it from the UI, and then do some more things. ...

Java "constant string too long" compile error. Only happens using Ant, not when using Eclipse

I have a few really long strings in one class for initializing user information. When I compile in Eclipse, I don't get any errors or warnings, and the resulting .jar runs fine. Recently, I decided to create an ant build file to use. Whenever I compile the same class with ant, I get the "constant string too long" compile error. I've tri...

Specifying both multiple targets and multiple build files with ant or subant in 1.6

I'm trying to unify a build process, running one build to get multiple packages. My first shot at this is just having a central build script call <ant> or <subant> on each project's build.xml file. I'm using Ant 1.6, and I've run into a funny problem: either I use the <ant> task, and I can specify multiple targets but not multiple buil...

Get ant concat to ignore BOM's'?

I have an ant build that concatenates my javascript into one file and then compresses it. The problem is that Visual Studio's default encoding attaches a BOM to every file. How do I configure ant to strip out BOM's that would otherwise appear in the middle of the resulting concatenated file? My googl'ing revealed this discussion which i...

How can I use the same buildscript for Flash Builder 4 and Ant/Mvn?

I'm setting up a build system for a Flash Builder 4 (Flex 4) based project; and I'm struggling to get a setup that compiles in the IDE the same as it does from the command line on the build server. I come from a C# background; and my expectation is that I'll be able to create a "solution" with a collection of "projects" that I can compi...

How to list TODO: in Ant build output

Related: How to use ant to check for tags (TODO: etc) in java source How can I get ant to list TODO: tags found in my code in the build output when I run it. I would like build failure to be optional (ie: a setting) if they are found. I've tried Checkstyle as suggested in the related post, but it doesn't display the text of th...

Error Ant Build/deploy to websphere 7.0

Hi I'm trying to build/deploy war to websphere process server 7.0. and I run on windows environment..... I use http://illegalargumentexception.blogspot.com/2008/08/ant-automated-deployment-to-websphere.html as my reference. and http://illegalargumentexception.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/code/java/WebSphereAntFiles/ as my sample code to dep...

Generating Ant build file for a project in eclipse

Hi everyone. I have a project written in Java using eclipse and I would like to generate an Ant build file for it. How can it be done? I constantly need to keep it synchronized with the source code, so that I could promote it along with the code to the common repository when with the project structure is modified. I'm sorry for a stupi...

Echo target description in Ant

<target name="compile" description="Compile the File"> <echo>Compile the File </echo> <mkdir dir="${compilation-dir}" /> <javac srcdir="." classpath="another2" destdir="${compilation-dir}" /> </target> I want to echo the description of the target. Is there a better way of doing this other than duplicating it...

Conditionally Delete in Ant

I want to delete the directory if the property "delete-compiled-dir" is set to true. If the property is false then do not execute it. Right now I have <target name="deleted-after-compilation" depends="compile,jar"> <condition property="${delete-compiled-dir}" value="true"> <delete dir="${compilation-dir}" /> ...

what's the difference between AntCall and Ant tasks?

Is there any substantial difference between the AntCall task (described here) and the Ant task (described here), except for the fact that Ant task runs on a different build file? ...

How can I use an Ant foreach iteration with values from a file?

In our Ant build environment, I have to do the same task for a number of items. The AntContrib foreach task is useful for that. However, the list is in a parameter, where I actually have the list in a file. How can I iterate over items in a file in an foreach-like way in Ant? Something like (pseudo-code): <foreach target="compile-module...