Using ant military task to include files in the WEB-INF directory

Question

I use ant to build my web application. I am sure it is simple, but I cannot figure out how to tell ant to create a specific folder in the WEB-INF directory and copy the files there.

My ant military task is as follows:

<target name="warItUp" depends="compile"> <war destfile="MyApp.war" webxml="${home.dir}\WEB-INF\web.xml"> <classes dir="${classes.dir}"/> <classes file="${src.dir}/hibernate.cfg.xml"/> <classes dir="${src.dir}" includes="**/*.hbm.xml"/> <!-- Include the PDF files --> <fileset dir="${home.dir}/PDFs"> <include name="**/*.pdf"/> </fileset> <!-- Include the JSP files --> <fileset dir="${home.dir}/JSPs"> <include name="**/*.jsp"/> </fileset> <!-- Include the images --> <fileset dir="${home.dir}/images"> <include name="**/*"/> </fileset> </war> 

All elements of the file set work, that is, they include pdf, jsp and image files in the root directory of a military file.

But if I want to create a subdirectory in the WEB-INF directory of a military file and include files in it, how can I indicate this? for example, for example, I wanted to include WEB-INF / TagLibraryDescriptors / MyTagLib.tld in a military file, or if I wanted to create a WEB-INF / JSP folder in my military file and copy all the JSP files there.

Thanks.

Answer 1

OP is here, thanks for all the answers. I found another solution - there is a webinf element that can be included in a military task.

This will copy the files from the JSP source folder to the WEB-INF folder in the war file:

 <webinf dir="${home.dir}/JSPs" includes="**/*.jsp"> </webinf> 

whereas this will copy the files from the original JSP folder to the WEB-INF / JSP folder (my preferred choice):

 <webinf dir="${home.dir}" includes="/JSPs/**/*.jsp"> </webinf> 

I think I will stick to this decision, but thanks for the answers.

Answer 2

As an alternative to the nested webinf element webinf you can also use the zipfileset element, which allows you to specify the source folder and the path prefix in the archive:

 <zipfileset dir="${home.dir}/JSPs" includes="**/*.jsp" prefix="WEB-INF/JSPs"/> 

Answer 3

Try creating this directory in your project, and then just add a set of files, for example:

 <fileset dir="${home.dir}/WEB-INF/mydirectory/*"> <include name="**/*"/> </fileset> 

Answer 4

Why not create a dir structure, do you need a mkdir method?