application.xml created with Ant?

[itchyoinker]

Can anyone tell me if application.xml can be created using Ant?

Regards,
Itchy

[gorano]

That shouldn't be a problem at all, most stuff can be
created with Ant (apart from my coffe, but I'm working on it :-).

/Goran

[jae77]

i don't believe ant can do this, unless you wrote a custom task for it.

you can add tokens to the file that can be replaced when a build is performed, but you still have to create the "templated" application.xml" for it to work with.

[gorano]

With a template it would be something like this:

<copy todir="${build.dir}/${site}" overwrite="true">
 <fileset dir="metadata/app" includes="application.xml"/>
 <filterset>
 <filter token="SITE" value="${site}"/>
 </filterset>
 </copy>

/G

[itchyoinker]

Thanks a bunch gorano and jae77,

I looked all over for a method that would generate application.xml, but couldn't find one. Now I know why I didn't find it. Using tokens looks like the best way. Thanks for the input.

Itchy

[formenti]

if you want an automatic application.xml's creator you can use Lomboz, a plugin for Eclipse. If you define your modules (web, ejb, etc.), it create the application.xml for you!

Gio