Developing Web Applications With Ant by Richard Hightower - HTML preview

Running Ant for the First Time

To run the sample Ant build file, go to the directory that contains the project files. To run Ant, navigate to the examples/chap20/webdoclet directory and type:

 

ant deploy

 

As we stated earlier, Ant will find build.xml, which is the default name for the build file. (You may have to adjust your build.properties files.) For our example, here is the command-line output you should expect: C:\tomcatbook\chap20\webdoclet>ant deploy
Buildfile: build.xml
init:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\tmp\war

compile:
[javac] Compiling 2 source files to C:\tomcatbook\webdoclet\WEB
INF\classes

package:
[war] Building war: C:\tmp\war\myapp.war
deploy:
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\tomcat4\webapps
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 14 seconds

 

Notice that the targets and their associated tasks are displayed. That's it! <SOME SECTIONS OMITTED>