Ant script for Maven war and deploy

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We have a Maven project (using Eclipse/Java) that we need to create a war of, and deploy to a remote Tomcat server. We need an ant script for this. Could anyone please share code samples or any other pointers?

I once do all of the tasks you list above with bash script. If that's all you're asking for, bash script (or .bat file if you are using windows) is enough — Hoàng Long
@DaveNewton You can look into it as a constraint - we can only run Ant scripts from the build side. — user2666282

mvlaicevich mvlaicevich · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-17T20:23:18

You need to create a file like this, I called it build.xml

<project name="APP" default="copywar" basedir=".">

<!--=========================================================================

            Helper - Version 0.1
==========================================================================-->

<property name="dist.dir" value="target" />
<property name="tomcat.home" value="YOUR TOMCAT DIR" />
<property name="deploy.dir" value="${tomcat.home}/webapps" />
<property name="website.name" value="APP.war" />
<property name="websitedir.name" value="APP" />

<!-- Undeploys the web site from tomcat -->
<target name="copywar" depends="">

    <delete dir="${deploy.dir}/${websitedir.name}" />
    <delete file="${deploy.dir}/${website.name}" />

    <echo message="Deleted directory and War" />

    <!--Copy web application to deplyment dir -->
    <copy file="${dist.dir}/${website.name}" todir="${deploy.dir}" />
</target>

And on your pom.xml you need to add

<!-- copyToTomcat with build.xml -->
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>package-ear</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <tasks>
                            <ant target="copywar" inheritRefs="true">
                                <!-- Here, connect with build.xml -->
                            </ant>
                        </tasks>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Ant script for Maven war and deploy

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