Fwd: forthcoming changes to in Ant

[Vincent Massol <vi...@massol.net>]

Hi guys,

Steve kindly sent this email to me a while back and I should have  
forwarded it to you who are working on Cactus. So here it is a bit  
late though. Sorry about that. Maybe it can still be useful in some way.

Thanks
-Vincent

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steve Loughran <st...@gmail.com>
> Date: November 6, 2006 10:16:10 PM CEST
> To: Vincent Massol
> Subject: forthcoming changes to <war> in Ant
>
> Vince,
>
> I ought to warn you of some coming (and not yet finalized) changes to
> the <war> task in Ant1.7, which you will see in the next beta.
>
> I've modified <war> so that it doesnt require a web.xml any more, as
> it is now optional in servlet2.5
>
> if you set the attribute needxmlfile=false. The default is true; <war>
> fails if there is no webxml attribute and it is updating in situ. It
> also tries to be a bit cleverer about complaining if there are
> multiple references to the same web.xml file in the WAR; it should
> stop telling you off if the exact same file is pulled in via a fileset
> as well as the webxml attribute.
>
> If you set needxmlfile=false and pull in a web.xml file, the task now
> warns you. I may also tweak EAR to do the same thing with
> application.xml
>
> This behaviour isnt frozen yet. I think <cactifywar> and <cactifyear>
> extend or use the ant tasks, and dont want to break them. If you want
> absolute control of what is going on, the <jar> task is your best bet.
> Now that webxml/application.xml are optional, there's much less need
> for the <war>/<ear> tasks, that are just conveniences.
>
> -steve
>


	

	
		
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