Create war ant build dynamic web project

Create war ant build dynamic web project

If you want to create war file using ant build.xml for any dynamic web project please see steps below:

• Project structure:

• build.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Jboss 5.0 Ear Deployment with Servlet and JSP"
	default="all" basedir=".">

	<property name="dirs.base" value="${basedir}" />
	<property name="src" value="${dirs.base}/src" />
	<property name="web" value="${dirs.base}/webContent" />
	<property name="classdir" value="${web}/WEB-INF/classes" />
	<property name="deploymentdescription" value="${dirs.base}/build/deploymentdescriptors" />
	<property name="dir.deploy.folder" value="C:\JavaHonk\war" />

	<property name="warFile" value="createWarFile.war" />
	<property name="warDir" value="${dirs.base}/build/war" />

	<target name="clean" description="Remove all generated files.">
		<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF" />
		<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
		<delete file="${warDir}/${warFile}" />
		<echo message="Cleaned" />
	</target>

	<target name="clean_folder" description="Remove all generated files.">
		<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF" />
		<delete dir="${warDir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
		<delete file="${warDir}/${warFile}" />
		<echo message="Cleaned" />
	</target>

	<!-- Main target -->
	<target name="all" depends="clean,buildWar,deploy,clean_folder" />

	<!-- Create the War File -->
	<target name="buildWar">
		<fileset dir="${classdir}" includes="**/*.class" />
		<fileset dir="${web}" includes="web.xml" />
		<fileset dir="${web}" includes="**/*.*" />
		<fileset file="**/WEB-INF/lib/test2/*.jar" />
		<!-- Create war file and place in ear directory -->
		<jar jarfile="${warDir}/${warFile}" basedir="${web}">
			<exclude name="**/WEB-INF/lib/test/**" />
			<exclude name="**/WEB-INF/lib/jstl-1.2.jar" />			
		</jar>
	</target>

	<target name="deploy">
		<copy todir="${dir.deploy.folder}" overwrite="yes">
			<fileset file="${warDir}/${warFile}" />
		</copy>
		<echo message="deployed" />
	</target>

</project>