Ant Task Examples - 2016-06-02

Here is a basic example of Apache Ant task.

Define properties, using this value ${property} like valuables

<property name="tomcat.host" value="192.168.1.250" />
<property name="tomcat.port" value="8080" />
<property name="username" value="tomcat" />
<property name="password" value="password" />

Java Task

<target name="run">
  <java classname="Main">
    <classpath>
      <pathelement location="classes"/>
      <pathelement path="${java.class.path}"/>
    </classpath>
  </java>
</target>

Javac Task

<target name="compile">
  <javac srcdir="src" destdir="classes" executable="${compiler}" includeantruntime="false"></javac>
</target>

Execute other commands

<target name="run-jsp">
  <exec executable="curl">
    <arg line="http://${tomcat.host}:${tomcat.port}/${appName}/test.jsp" />
  </exec>
</target>

Remove/Create directories

<target name="cleanup">
  <delete dir="${classes}" />
  <mkdir dir="${classes}" />
</target>

Copy files

<target name="copy">
  <copy file="web.xml" todir="WEB-INF/" />
  <copy file="test.jsp" todir="jsp/" />
  <copy todir="WEB-INF/jsp/">
    <fileset dir=".">
      <include name="*.jsp"></include>
      <exclude name="test.jsp"></exclude>
    </fileset>
  </copy>
</target>

ZIP

<target name="zip">
  <zip basedir="${builddir}" destfile="${appName}.war" />
</target>