February 2005
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 53m
English
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1.7. Using Ant to Build and Deploy
Problem
You want to be able to build and deploy your Struts web application in a repeatable and portable manner.
Solution
Create an Ant (http://ant.apache.org) build script and use Ant (or your IDE's Ant integration) to compile, test, package, and deploy your application. Example 1-8 is a boilerplate Ant build file that can compile, build, and deploy a Struts application.
Example 1-8. Boilerplate Ant build file
<project name="jsc-ch01-r02" default="dist" basedir="."> <description> Jakarta Struts Cookbook - Ant Template </description> <!-- Enable access to environment variables --> <property environment="env"/> <!-- Set to use JDK 1.4 --> <property name="build.compiler" value="javac1.4"/> <!-- set global properties for this build --> <property name="src.dir" location="src"/> <property name="build.dir" location="build"/> <property name="dist.dir" location="dist"/> <property name="server.dir" location="${env.CATALINA_HOME}"/> <property name="servlet.jar" location="${server.dir}/common/lib/servlet-api.jar"/> <property name="jsp.jar" location="${server.dir}/common/lib/jsp-api.jar"/> <property name="struts.dist.dir" location="c:/jakarta-struts-1.1/lib"/> <!-- Struts --> <fileset id="struts.lib.files" dir="${struts.dist.dir}"> <include name="**/*.jar"/> </fileset> <path id="struts.classpath"> <fileset refid="struts.lib.files"/> </path> <path id="project.class.path"> <pathelement location="${servlet.jar}"/> <pathelement location="${jsp.jar}"/> <path refid="struts.classpath"/> ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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