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I've been told I should use Tomcat's Ant Tasks (install, list, refresh, remove) in AppFuse to ease deployment of the app. So I tried that today (June 24, 2003). Here's how I set it up and what I found. I hope to use this page to get a consensus on how these tasks should be used.

1. First, I defined a tomcat.classpath for the catalina-ant.jar file. Putting in in $ANT_HOME/lib did not work - and this way seemed cleaner. So in properties.xml, I added:

    <!-- For Tomcat Tasks -->
    <path id="tomcat.classpath">
        <fileset dir="${tomcat.home}/server/lib" 
            includes="catalina-ant.jar" />
    </path>

2. Then in build.xml, I define the tasks in the "define-tasks" target:

    <!-- Tomcat Tasks -->
    <taskdef name="install" 
        classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask" 
        classpathref="tomcat.classpath" /> 
    <taskdef name="list" 
        classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask" 
        classpathref="tomcat.classpath" /> 
    <taskdef name="reload" 
        classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask"
        classpathref="tomcat.classpath" /> 
    <taskdef name="remove" 
        classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask" 
        classpathref="tomcat.classpath" />

3. Then I created targets for each one of these tasks:

    <!-- =================================================================== -->
    <!-- install, list, reload and remove are all Tomcat deployment targets. -->
    <!-- =================================================================== -->
    <target name="install" depends="package-web"
        description="Install application to servlet container">
        <install url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.username}"
            password="${tomcat.password}" path="/${webapp.name}"
            war="file://${webapp.dist}/${webapp.war}"/>
    </target>

    <target name="list" depends="define-tasks"
        description="List installed applications on servlet container">
        <list url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.username}"
            password="${tomcat.password}" />
    </target>

    <target name="refresh" depends="package-web"
        description="Reload application on servlet container">
        <reload url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.username}"
            password="${tomcat.password}" path="/${webapp.name}"/>
    </target>

    <target name="remove" depends="define-tasks"
        description="Remove application on servlet container">
        <remove url="${tomcat.manager.url}" username="${tomcat.username}"
            password="${tomcat.password}" path="/${webapp.name}"/>
    </target>

NOTE: I used "refresh" as a target name since I already have a "reload" task that stops tomcat, undeploys, cleans and redeploys.

4. My understanding is that I should be able to point the install and refresh tasks at the .war file for my app, and it'll install/reload as requested. The list and remove tasks work fine at this point.

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This particular version was published on 06-Nov-2006 13:52:38 MST by MattRaible.