How do I use ant dirset with the ear task?

Question

I'm building an EAR with ant which needs to include the lib folder (including jars) from my EAR project. I've tried this but although a lib folder is created in the ear file no jars are included. Only the war files are copied into the ear.

<ear destfile="${ear.file}" appxml="META-INF/application.xml">
    <dirset dir=".">
        <include name="lib" />
    </dirset>

    <fileset dir="${temp.dir}">
        <include name="*.war" />
    </fileset>
</ear>

don't know why the dirset won't work, but you can achieve the same thing with a fileset — oers
I should have been clearer - the folder is created but not the contents — blank
it is not really clear from the docs, but I suppose that dirset has to be taken literally. It only includes directories (and files are not directories). — oers

blank blank · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-03T10:17:21

I used the zipfileset task instead, which does the trick:

<ear destfile="${ear.file}" appxml="META-INF/application.xml">
    <zipfileset dir="lib" prefix="lib"/>

    <fileset dir="${temp.dir}">
        <include name="*.war" />
    </fileset>
</ear>

How do I use ant dirset with the ear task?

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