This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. This article discusses on how to execute a batch file or shell script using Ant. The article details about using exec command with an example code. We will write an Ant build script, which identifies the current operating system OS and based on the OS detected either a batch file or a shell script is executed.
So then I can run ant like any other utility on the commandline or from another script like I would in bash. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to execute ant using a batch file? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 17k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.
Thanks, it works. But Still don't know why do I have to enter the full path of it since I only need to type 'java' in a batch file to execute a java program BUT ant binary directory is not included in path. You can include it and then you will not need to include the full path.
We have also customised the window title, the header, and the footer information that appear on the java documentation pages. Let us execute the javadoc Ant task. It generates and places the java documentation files in the doc folder. The next logical step after compiling your java source files, is to build the java archive, i. Creating JAR files with Ant is quite easy with the jar task. The base directory for the output JAR file. By default, this is set to the base directory of the project.
While the compress attribute is applicable to the individual files, the keepcompression attribute does the same thing, but it applies to the entire archive. Advises Ant on what to do when duplicate files are found.
You could add, preserve, or fail the duplicate files. Continuing our Hello World Fax Application project, let us add a new target to produce the jar files. Here, the web. In our case, this is where the util. The build. In this example, we create a jar file called util. However, we are excluding the classes that end with the name Test. The output jar file will be placed in the web application lib folder. If we want to make the util.
To execute the jar task, wrap it inside a target, most commonly, the build or package target, and execute them. But before that, let us consider the war task. As per the previous examples, the web. This is where the classes for the WAR package can be found.
In this example, we are creating a war file called fax. The WEB. XML file is obtained from the web source folder. However, we are excluding the portlet. Wrap the war task inside an Ant target usually package and run it. This will create the WAR file in the specified location. It is entirely possible to nest the classes, lib, metainf and webinf directors, so that they live in scattered folders anywhere in the project structure.
But, best practices suggest that your Web project should have the Web Content structure that is similar to the structure of the WAR file. The Fax Application project has its structure outlined using this basic principle. To execute the war task, wrap it inside a target, most commonly, the build or package target, and run them.
The fax. We have learnt the different aspects of Ant using the Hello World Fax web application in bits and pieces. Now, it is time to put everything together to create a full and complete build. Consider build. We first declare the path to the webapps folder in Tomcat in the build properties file as the deploy.
Then, we declare the source folder for the web files in the web. The Javadoc target produces the javadoc required for the project and the usage target is used to print the common targets that are present in the build file.
The deploy target copies the files from the web directory to the deploy directory preserving the last modified date time stamp. This is useful, when deploying to a server that supports hot deployment. The deploywar target builds the war file and then, copies the war file to the deploy directory of the application server.
In this chapter, we are going to deploy the web application directly to the application server deploy folder and then, we are going to add a few Ant targets to start and stop the services.
Let us continue with the Hello World fax web application. This is a continuation of the previous chapter; the new components are highlighted in bold. Applications in Tomcat can be stopped and started using the Tomcat manager application. The URL for the manager application, username and password are also specified in the build. This jar file is required to execute Tomcat tasks through Apache Ant. Let us issue the deploy-war command to copy the webapp to the Tomcat webapps folder and then, let us reload the Fax Web application.
You can use Ant to execute the Java code. In the following example, the java class takes in an argument administrator's email address and send out an email. In this example, the java code does a simple thing which is, to send an email.
We could have used the built in the Ant task to do that. However, now that you have got the idea, you can extend your build file to call the java code that performs complicated things.
If you have downloaded and installed Eclipse already, you have very little to do to get started. Eclipse comes pre bundled with the Ant plugin, ready to use.
Make sure that the build. The Ant Eclipse plugin also comes with a good editor for editing build. The editor is aware of the build. To use the Ant editor, right click your build. The Ant editor lists the targets on the right hand side. The target list serves as a bookmark that allows you to jump straight into editing a particular target. JUnit is the commonly used unit testing framework for Java-based developments.
It is easy to use and easy to extend. There are a number of JUnit extensions available. If you are unfamiliar with JUnit, you should download it from www. This chapter shows how to execute JUnit tests by using Ant. The use of Ant makes it straight forward through the JUnit task.
Ant comes with a predefined set of tasks, however you can create your own tasks, as shown in the example below. Custom Ant Tasks should extend the org. Task class and should extend the execute method.
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