You could be wondering why I don't just use a fancy IDE, like Eclipse to do all this for me? Well... I've tried. But... I just can't 'like' Eclipse. I admit, I was very impressed with it - tons of functionallity, but in the end, I just couldn't give up using the beautiful TextMate. Eclipse felt cluttered and I was claustrophobic using it.
Pathetic excuse I know, but I need something I can get on and work with.
Anyway - enough side-tracking on talk of Eclipse.
Ant. Java compiling made easy. Bring on Tomcat extension tasks with it and that saves me another aspirin for working on my Tomcat coursework which is to develop a web based quiz. To install the Tomcat tasks for Ant on Mac OS X, you just need to copy them over:
cp /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.16/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar /Developer/Java/Ant/lib
Note that this installs the Tomcat tasks to the default Developer Tools install of Ant. If you've installed Ant manually, you'll need to change the paths above accordingly.Once the
.jar
is copied over, in your build.xml
files for your various projects, you'll need to include the following tags:<taskdef name="deploy" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask" />
<taskdef name="undeploy" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask" />
These task definitions only cover deploy
and undeploy
tasks. To use them in your project:<target name="undeploy">
<undeploy url="${tomcat.manager}"
username="${tomcat.username}"
password="${tomcat.password}"
path="/yourwebapp" />
</target>
Where tomcat.manager
is your URL to your Tomcat manager. Usually http://localhost:8080/manager
. tomcat.username
and tomcat.password
are self-explanatory. Then just substitute yourwebapp
with the name of your tomcat application directory located inside the webapp
directory. For my current coursework, this is webquiz
.The
deploy
task is very similar:<target name="deploy" depends="war">
<deploy url="${tomcat.manager}"
username="${tomcat.username}"
password="${tomcat.password}"
path="/${ant.project.name}"
update="true"
localWar="${war.dir}/${ant.project.name}.war" />
</target>
I have another target that creates a WAR file of my entire web application. This is what I'll use to deploy my application. The only additional attributes in the deploy
task are update
and localWar
. update
will replace an existing application if it already exists so that you have the latest working copy. localWar
is the location of the WAR file you want to deploy.Simple. Hope I've explained this clear enough.
As of writing this, I'm having some trouble getting this working with my iBook, which I assumed had the same set-up as my Intel iMac - of which, the above tasks are working perfectly.
from http://davidwinter.me/articles/2006/03/21/using-tomcat-ant-tasks/
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