Restarting Tomcat everytime I deployed with the Lomboz Eclipse plugin was proving to be too lengthy, so I set out trying to customize Ant a bit.

The following files were edited from the Lomboz generated webapp defaults. ie: create a project and edit the files found under WEB-INF.

The generated Ant config files copy all the compiled classes (redundant), the plain JSPs and all directories under WEB-INF to a temporary space jars it all up and copies that JAR to the webapp folder in tomcat. I didn’t want that. I just want the directory structure to be copied so that I can make changes faster and shorten my testing lifecycle (ooo buzzword).

Here’s my build.properties:

domain = /home/chris/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12-LE-jdk14/webapps
serverhome = /home/chris/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12-LE-jdk14/
build = ../../acronym/WEB-INF/classes
webapp = acronym

And here’s my build.xml:

<project name="AcronymChallenge"  default="deploy"  basedir=".">

  <!-- set global properties for this build -->
  <property file="build.properties"/>
  <property name="dist" value="${domain}/${webapp}" />
  <property name="web" value="../" />

  <target name="init">
    <!-- Create the dist directory structure used by compile
         and copy the deployment descriptors into it-->
    <mkdir dir="${dist}"/>
    <mkdir dir="${dist}/WEB-INF"/>
    <mkdir dir="${dist}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
    <mkdir dir="${dist}/WEB-INF/lib"/>
    <copy todir="${dist}">
      <fileset dir="${web}">
        <include name="**/*.*"/>
        <exclude name="**/jsp_servlet/*.class"/>
        <exclude name="**/build.xml"/>
        <exclude name="**/build.properties"/>
        <exclude name="**/servers.xml"/>
        <exclude name="**/container.xml"/>
        <exclude name="**/*.war"/>
      </fileset>
    </copy>
    <copy todir="${dist}/WEB-INF/classes">
      <fileset dir="${build}">
        <include name="**/*.*"/>
        <exclude name="**/jsp_servlet/*.class"/>
      </fileset>
    </copy>

  </target>

  <target name="deploy" depends="undeploy,init" >
	<copy todir="${dist}">
		<fileset dir="${web}">
        <include name="**/*.*"/>
        <exclude name="**/jsp_servlet/*.class"/>
        <exclude name="**/build.xml"/>
        <exclude name="**/build.properties"/>
        <exclude name="**/servers.xml"/>
        <exclude name="**/container.xml"/>
        <exclude name="**/*.war"/>
      </fileset>
    </copy>
    <copy todir="${dist}/WEB-INF/classes">
      <fileset dir="${build}">
        <include name="**/*.*"/>
        <exclude name="**/jsp_servlet/*.class"/>
      </fileset>
    </copy>
  </target>

  <target name="undeploy">
  <!-- Tomcat -->
  <delete dir="${domain}/${webapp}"/>
  <!-- Tomcat 4.0.x-->
  <delete dir="${serverhome}/work/localhost/${webapp}"/>
  <!-- Tomcat 4.1.x-->
  <delete dir="${serverhome}/work/Standalone/localhost/${webapp}"/>

  </target>

</project>