ANT Tasks – WAR


Apache Ant Tasks – WAR



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Description

War task is an extension of the Jar task with special treatment for files that should end up in the WEB-INF/lib, WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF directories of the Web Application Archive.

Properties


































Sr.No Attributes & Description
1

Destfile

The WAR file to create.

2

Webxml

The servlet configuration descriptor to use (WEB-INF/web.xml).

3

Basedir

The directory from which to jar the files.

4

Compress

Not only store data but also compress them. Unless you set the keepcompression attribute to false, this will apply to the entire archive, not only the files you”ve added while updating.

5

Keepcompression

For entries coming from existing archives (like nested zipfilesets or while updating the archive), keep the compression as it has been originally instead of using the compress attribute.

6

Encoding

The character encoding to use for filenames inside the archive.

7

Filesonly

Store only file entries.

8

Include

comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be included.

9

includesfile

Name of a file. Each line of this file is taken to be an include pattern.

10

Excludes

comma- or space-separated list of patterns of files that must be excluded.

11

Excludesfile

Name of a file. Each line of this file is taken to be an exclude pattern.

12

defaultexcludes

Indicates whether default excludes should be used or not (yes|no).

13

Menifest

The manifest file to use.

14

Filesetmanifest

Behavior when a manifest file is found in a zipfileset or zipgroupfileset file. Valid values are skip, merge, and mergewithoutmain. merge will merge all of the manifests together, and merge this into any other specified manifests. mergewithoutmain merges everything but the Main section of the manifests.

15

Whenmanifestonly

Behavior when no files match. Valid values are fail, skip, and create.

16

Manifestencoding

The encoding used to read the JAR manifest, when a manifest file is specified.

17

Index

Whether to create an index list to speed up classloading. Unless you specify additional jars with nested indexjars elements, only the contents of this jar will be included in the index.

18

indexMetaInf

Whether to include META-INF and its children in the index. Doesn”t have any effect if index is false. Oracle”s jar implementation used to skip the META-INF directory and Ant followed that example. The behavior has been changed with Java 5. In order to avoid problems with Ant generated jars on Java 1.4 or earlier, Ant will not include META-INF unless explicitly asked to.

19

Manifestencoding

The encoding used to read the JAR manifest, when a manifest file is specified.

20

Update

Indicates whether to update or overwrite the destination file if it already exists.

21

Duplicate

Behavior when a duplicate file is found. Valid values are add, preserve, and fail.

22

Roundup

Whether the file modification times will be rounded up to the next even number of seconds.

23

Level

Non-default level at which file compression should be performed. Valid values range from 0 (no compression/fastest) to 9 (maximum compression/slowest).

24

preserve0permissions

When updating an archive or adding entries from a different archive Ant will assume that a Unix permissions value of 0 (nobody is allowed to do anything to the file/directory) means that the permissions haven”t been stored at all rather than real permissions and will instead apply its own default values.

25

useLanguageEncodingFlag

Whether to set the language encoding flag if the encoding is UTF-8. This setting doesn”t have any effect if the encoding is not UTF-8.

26

createUnicodeExtraFields

Whether to create Unicode extra fields to store the file names a second time inside the entry”s metadata.

27

fallbacktoUTF8

Whether to use UTF-8 and the language encoding flag instead of the specified encoding if a file name cannot be encoded using the specified encoding.

28

mergeClassPathAttributes

Whether to merge the Class-Path attributes found in different manifests (if merging manifests). If false, only the attribute of the last merged manifest will be preserved.

29

FlattenAttributes

Whether to merge attributes occurring more than once in a section (this can only happen for the Class-Path attribute) into a single attribute.

30

zip64Mode

When to use Zip64 extensions for entries. The possible values are never, always and as-needed.

31

Needxmlfile

Flag to indicate whether or not the web.xml file is needed. It should be set to false when generating servlet 2.5+ WAR files without a web.xml file.

Example

Usage

Create build.xml with the following content −


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="TutorialPoint" default="info">
   <target name="info">
      <war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="web.xml"></war>
   </target>
</project>

Above script will create an ear file in the current directory as myapp.ear.

Output

Running Ant on the above build file produces the following output −


F:tutorialspointant>ant
Buildfile: F:tutorialspointantbuild.xml

info:
   [war] Building war: F:tutorialspointantmyapp.war

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second

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