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Iterating through a directory with Ant

Let's say I have a collection of PDF files with the following paths: /some/path/pdfs/birds/duck.pdf /some/path/pdfs/birds/goose.pdf /some/path/pdfs/insects/fly.pdf /some/path/pdfs/insects/mosquito.pdf What I'd like to do is generate thumbnails for each PDF that respect the relative path structure, and output to another location, i.e.:...

Executing bat file and returning the prompt

I have a problem with cruisecontrol where an ant scripts executes a bat file that doesn't give me the prompt back. As a result, the project in cruisecontrol keeps on bulding forever until I restart cruisecontrol. How can I resolve this? It's a startup.bat from wowza (Streaming Server) that I'm executing: @echo off call setenv.bat if ...

[ANT] Not able to invoke remote script in windows from linux using SSHEXEC

Hi, I have set up OpenSSH in my windows environment and wants to invoke a ANT script from a Linux environment. But i'm getting the following error: $ ant -f invoke.xml Buildfile: /home/inysi/jpegu/cdt/tmp/invoke.xml run: [sshexec] Connecting to ****** [sshexec] cmd : ant -f build.xml [sshexec] uname: not found [sshexec] basename...

NAnt authorization access issue

I'm having a problem trying to move a file through my network, I want to transfer the release from my continuos integration virtual machine to the host of this VM. but i get this: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '\\192.168.0.36\E$\WebApps\MyProgram' is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, Str...

How do I add jars needed to compile a maven project if they were never built with a pom?

I'm just starting with maven, coming from years of working with Ant. I'm trying a basic task now, building a simple project that requires some libraries from a vendor. I have the jars in src\main\resources\VENDORNAME. When I run mvn compile it fails on compilation saying the libraries don't exist. I can't seem to add these as dependen...

do not use com.sun.xml.internal.*?

Hi all, Is this statement true: com.sun.xml.internal package is an internal package as the name suggestes. Users should not write code that depends on internal JDK implementation classes. Such classes are internal implementation details of the JDK and subject to change without notice One of my colleagues used one of the classe...

Shell script task status monitoring

I'm running an ANT task in background and checking in 60 second intervals whether that task is complete or not. If it is not, every 60 seconds, a message should be displayed on screen - "Deploy process is still running. $slept seconds since deploy started", where $slept is 60, 120, 180 n so on. There's a limit of 1200 seconds, after wh...

Problem using the antbuilder mail task in groovy 1.7.2.

Hi, I recently have a problem using the antbuilder mail task in groovy. It always throws the following exception: [mail] Sending email: null [mail] Failed to send email: 0 Caught: : java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 I think the problem just occurred with the release of the new 1.7.2 version, but I cannot ensure it. Here is...

Ant: how do I disable all non-error messages?

Hello, everyone! When running ant from command line on my Netbeans projects, I get the following messages hundreds of times, which is very annoying: Trying to override old definition of task http://www.netbeans.org/ns/j2se-project/3:javac Trying to override old definition of task http://www.netbeans.org/ns/j2se-project/3:depend Trying ...

Ant deploy WAR file to tomcat server failure

I am having a little trouble getting my deployment task in ant to function. I have a war file that is generated as part of the build process, and I am now trying to autodeploy that to my test server. In ant I have defined a deployment task as seen below. When I try to run it I get a file not found error on the server in the catalina.o...

Does Ivy's url resolver support transitive retrieval?

For some reason I can't seem to resolve the dependencies of my dependencies when using a url resolver to specify a repository's location. However, when using the ibiblio resolver, I am able to retrieve them. For example: <!-- Ivy File --> <ivy-module version="1.0"> <info organisation="org.apache" module="chained-resolvers"/> <dependen...

Using the Antenna and J2ME Polish preprocessors interchangeably and setting a variable value

I have J2ME code, which I want to be able to compile using the J2ME Polish preprocessor or the wtkpreprocessor (antenna). They mostly use the same directives so it usually works, but ... When I want to insert an URL value in the Java code this gives a problem. In Antenna the code would look like this: //#ifdef my.url //# System.ou...

How to verify a jar signed with ant

Can i check signed file with ant? i sign jar files with http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/signjar.html and now i want to test it before to deploy it. I can chek with jarsigner -verify sbundle.jar but i do not know if is possible with ant do that? ...

Ant ignores attempt to override the LANG environment variable

We need to test a java build with the languages set to different values. I can manually (i.e. via export LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 and export LANG=en_DK) test that the unit tests run with the ant build script behaves differently, but I need to set the environment variable from ant. I have tried setting it using these methods (with the shell $LANG...

Getting JAX-WS client work on Weblogic 9.2 with ant

I've recently had lots of issues trying to deploy a JAX-WS web servcie client on Weblogic 9.2. It turns out there is no straightforward guide on how to achieve this, so I decided to put together this short wiki entry hoping it might be useful for others. Firstly, Weblogic 9.2 does not support web servcies using JAX-WS in general. It com...

Debugging TestNG configuration failures

I'm running testng from ant. I'm using my own test listeners. I'm refactoring the code and once a while I got [testng] Total tests run: 7, Failures: 0, Skips: 7 [testng] Configuration Failures: 1, Skips: 2 What will be the best approach to fix configuration failures? ...

Deploy to Geronimo with Ant

Hi, everybody. I have Apache Geronimo installed with Tomcat. I am building a war file and whant to deploy it to Geronimo automatically with Ant script. A standart way to deploy to Geronimo is to use deployer.jar, am I right? And I saw that there are tasks available to deploy jars on standalone Tomcat. So what would be the right way? Or m...

What would you use for deployment scripts in Java?

Hi, I'm working on a Java web project that uses Maven to build its artifacts. At the end of the Maven build we have a few jar and war files that we need to deploy onto our development/testing environment. Right now we're using a pretty hefty Ant script that performs several tasks (on both Windows/Linux machines) Starts/Stops services...

Multiple depends in ant task

If I have three targets, one "all", one "compile" and one "jsps", how would I make "all" depend on the other two Would it be <target name="all" depends="compile,jsps"> or would it be <target name="all" depends="compile","jsps"> Or maybe something even different? I tried searching for example ant scripts to base it off of, but I c...

MXMLC Ant task results in java.lang.OutOFMemoryError

I'm making a change to a set of code for a Flex project that I didn't write and was set up to compile using ant tasks. I assume that the codebase was stable at the last checkin but I'm running into memory issues when trying to build a project using MXMLC and ant (see stack trace below). Before, I was just getting an out of memory error. ...