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Problem in using ftp with ant 1.6.1

Hi All I am trying to make use of <ftp > ...like <target name "upload " > <ftp server "server_name " userid "user_name " password "password " remotedir "/home/user_name/ "

Mail problems after upgrading from 1.5.4 to 1.6.1

I am using the <mail > task to attach 1-3 files under 1.5.4 and it worked great. Since I upgrade to 1.6.1 I don 't get attachments but instead get an inline UUEncode file... I tried changing the

Why does this ant script fail?

Here 's the script <?xml version "1.0 "? > <project name "jasper problem " default "jasper " > <property name "tomcat " location "jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 "/ > <property name "tomcat.bin " location "${

log4j question...

Is there any way to put log4j.properties in $ANT_HOME/lib or some other really high level dir to get it picked up automatically? The only way I 've found this possible is to put this property file in

Log files when running junit task

I 'm using this target <target name "test " depends "compile-test props-test " > <junit showoutput "true " > <test name "edu.asu.vpia.dao.colleague.TestUtil "/ > <formatter type "plain

More 'blank line ' output from default logger in 1.6.1?

Sorry if this is an FAQ but I haven 't been able to find anything on the topic. I 've recently switched from ant 1.5.4 to 1.6.1 (very painless!) but notice that the build output from the default logger

How can I send non-body attachments with the mail task?

Hello everyone I need to sent a file as an attachment to an email. For this I use the mail task but what is does is UUEncoding the attachment en putting it into the body of the email. This is not

Creating database scripts via ant

Our company maintains it 's database definition via a "master database " which is copied for production and test uses. I prefer to have SQL (DDL) scripts that create and populate my database for deve

RE: Guidance on build.xml to build dev/test/live with no
changes

If it were me I would run the three in totally separate instances of tomcat. This will allow you to control the server configuration and changes to server configuration the same way you handle sour

Guidance on build.xml to build dev/test/live with no changes

I 'm trying to cut down on the amount of editing files before building a live version of my project as opposed to a test or development version. I learned how to use @(protected)@ in files and then replace

java.io.IOException: CreateProcess ... error=193

Does anyone have a possible solution to this problem? I 've read quite a few postings with this exception but error 2 instead of 193. I 'm aware that there have been issues with slashes when using env

Best Practices for Database Tasks

I 've got my first ant project that is going to need to execute various database tasks in the process. I 've got some basic SQL tasks for cleaning and building the database but I feel like I 'm approach

show list of available tasks

Hi all I 've looked but I didn 't see a switch on ant to just show me the list of available targets on a build file something like ant -bla that will just return a list of the all the targets in a bu

ejbjar manifest case sensitive

I have to deploy ejb using ejbjar ant task under Windows and Linux. First under Windows there was no problem. But when I have test my ant script under Linux the ejbjar makes a new (empty) MANIFEST.M

List of frequently found gotchas

Hi I don 't know if any Ant developers are listening on this list but may I politely suggest that if a list of Frequently Found Gotchas was given as part of the Ant user documentation then the v

Https site test

We want to run a simple automated test after we have started the server in production. Basically I was thinking to write a Ant Script that will try to access a https url and if successful will conside

Create incremental ZIPs?

We have a relatively large WAR that is assembled via an Ant script and what we 've done in the past is build the war then open it manually in WinZip sort the files by modification date extract th

RE: Creating different jar files for each package in source direc
tory

Using AntContribs iterators ( <for > <foreach >) if you want to handle that dynamically or using <macrodef > if you can hardcode your packages. Ant?s buildfile (1.6) uses the second for the optional jar?

Creating different jar files for each package in source directory

Hi Is there a way to create a different jar files for each package using only one target. I have got this ejbs package I want to bundle this whole thing into different jar files and then add it to ea

getting a macro attribute in a script

How do you get the value of a macro 's attribute from within a script. My build file looks like <macrodef name "replaceClientConfig " id "replaceClientConfig_id " >

Distributed building

Does anyone use Ant to run distributed builds? Ie. Compilations on different machines from within the same build script using some (maybe cpu load) as the node selection criteria. Also do the <par

<delete > without following symlinks

I 've got a build file which runs a Unix program to set up a build directory. Among other tasks this Unix program creates symbolic links to several directories of utility programs. One of the firs

Help! P4Change.execute hangs the process

I 'm using Ant 1.6.0 and I 'm trying to automate a checkout by creating an instance of the p4change task within another task. I instantiate it by calling Project.createTask( "p4change ") and set a descr

if/unless/depends on macrodefs

It would be really neat if I could use the if/unless on macrodefs. I 've create a macro for code generation and I call it 8 times to do stuff. Macros make for nice clean "code ". But now that I 'm t

<uptodate > problems (solved)

Thanks but I figured it out. The mapper to should not a) repeat the srcfiles dir and b) needs have a to "*Bean.java ". Thanks anway On Friday 05 March 2004 07 42 David Corbin wrote > Here 's a f

How to refresh a property?

Hi from a java Class (sub-class of Project) I call the target "px_file_history " from a for loop. How can I get the "file " attribute refreshed when I actualize the property "file_list "? <target nam

<uptodate > problems

Here 's a fragment of a build file <property name "full.generated.src.dir " location "${generated.src.dir} " / > <uptodate property "xdoclet-uptodate " > <srcfiles dir "loyalty/javasrc "

ant bug?

Hi ANT 1.6 The <fileset > although same perform differently in the two tasks <zip destfile "templates_ext/pretrade.zip " update "true " > <fileset dir "${pretrade}/data " includes "simulati

Exception details for <java > task

Hi When I run the <java > task if my code produces an exception all I get is eg [java] java.lang.NullPointerException How can I get the full exception details? Cheers Keith.

echo "something " > > somefile

I am trying get ant to do the exact equivalent of echo "This is a line of text in a file " > > file.txt Note that I am appending to the file. I want a text file in my build directory that has two

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