Chapter 7 Deploying Web Applications in Apache Tomcat

Building, Packaging and Deploying the Web Application Using Ant

To run the Ant build script, you can use the command:

ant [-buildfile <filename>.xml] [<targetName>]

The following other commands may be useful:

• To display help: ant help
• To compile the entire application: ant compile
• To generate Javadoc: ant javadoc
• To generate the .WAR files: ant pack
• To verify the generated .WAR file using the j2eeverifier: ant verify
• To deploy a web application in Tomcat: ant deploy
• To undeploy a web application from Tomcat: ant undeploy
• To install a web application in Tomcat: ant install
• To remove a web application from Tomcat: ant remove
• To reload an installed web application in Tomcat: ant reload
• To start Tomcat: ant start
• To stop Tomcat: ant stop
• To display the installed web applications in Tomcat: ant list

You can overwrite the url, username, password values using the –D option.

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