Write build.xml file (ANT) for compiling and generating WAR file

[Jon_Inazio (Jon Inazio Sánchez Martínez)]

@Marko Grönroos

Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s documented well anywhere. Oddly, I can’t find an example zip file from the website anymore.

The
build.xml for the book-examples
should offer a rather clean example. Most settings can be done in the beginning of the build script, although there’s some important things that you need to set in the compilation targets, such as what application-specific files to include and exclude.

For remote deployment, you can probably use many existing deployment tools. I’ve seen people often use just scp+ssh; first scp the WAR to a staging directory and then move to the Tomcat’s webapps directory. Then perhaps have a script check that the deployment succeeded by accessing it with HTTP request.

Thanks for your help.

I found a repository of a buddy which exemplifies the creation of ANT files for building a Vaadin 7 project: https://github.com/canthony/simple-vaadin-7-compile-widgetset-ivy

I have been able to get it to work. What I’m doing now is to figure out how to add the Cargo functionality to this existing ANT build.xml file.

I’ll report my advances.