Use ant for remote tomcat deployment and anttomcat deployment

Use ant for remote tomcat deployment and anttomcat deployment

In the javaEE project, you need to deploy the project to a remote server. If the deployment frequency is high, manual deployment is troublesome. You can use the Ant tool for Fast deployment. This blog post details the ant configuration steps (http://www.cnblogs.com/GloriousOnion/archive/2012/12/18/2822817.html), but not applicable in tomcat7 or above, you need to modify the configuration as follows:

1. Configure the tomcat User Role

The user roles in Tomcat 7 include:

Manager-gui-Access to the HTML interface.
Manager-status-Access to the "Server Status" page only.
Manager-script-Access to the tools-friendly plain text interface that isdescribed in this document, and to the "Server Status" page.
Manager-jmx-Access to JMX proxy interface and to the "ServerStatus" page.

We need to use manager-script for configuration in the tomcat-users.xml. Add the following code:

<Role rolename = "manager-script"/>

<User username = "username" password = "password" roles = "manager-script">

2. Configure the Ant Environment

Previously in 6.0, we will add catalina-ant.jar package in classpath, the specific operation is: window --> preferences, left: ant --> runtime, add external jars under the global entries in the classpath label on the right, the path points to tomcat_home/lib/catalina-ant.jar, just this one, but now 7.0 has to add a few more: lib/catalina-ant.jar, lib/tomcat-coyote.jar, lib/tomcat-util.jar, bin/tomcat-juli.jar

3. Compile the build. xml file

<Project name = "project name" default = "redeploy" basedir = ".">

<! -- Configure the directory into which the web application is built -->

<Property name = "build" value = "$ {basedir}/build"/>

 

<! -- Configure the context path for this application -->

<Property name = "path" value = "/Application name"/>

 

<! -- Configure properties to access the Manager application -->

<Property name = "url" value = "http: // your domain name/manager/text"/>

<Property name = "username" value = "username configured in step 1"/>

<Property name = "password" value = "password configured in step 1"/>

 

<! -- Configure the custom Ant tasks for the Manager application -->

<Taskdef name = "deploy" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. DeployTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "list" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. ListTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "reload" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. ReloadTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "findleaks" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. FindLeaksTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "resources" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. ResourcesTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "start" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. StartTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "stop" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. StopTask"/>

<Taskdef name = "undeploy" classname = "org. apache. catalina. ant. UndeployTask"/>

 

<! -- Executable Targets -->

<Target name = "compile" description = "Compile webapplication">

<! --... Construct web application in $ {build} subdirectory, and

Generated a $ {path}. war... -->

<Deletedir = "$ {build}"/>

<Mkdir dir = "$ {build}"/>

<Wardestfile = "$ {build}/school. war" webxml = "WebRoot/WEB-INF/web. xml">

<Classesdir = "WebRoot/WEB-INF/classes">

<Excludename = "**/*. xml"/>

</Classes>

<Libdir = "WebRoot/WEB-INF/lib"/>

<Fileset dir = "WebRoot">

<Includename = "**/**. *"/>

<Excludename = "**/*. jar"/>

<Excludename = "**/*. class"/>

</Fileset>

</War>

</Target>

 

<Target name = "deploy" description = "Install webapplication" depends = "compile">

<Deploy url = "$ {url}" username = "$ {username}" password = "$ {password}" path = "$ {path}" war = "$ {build }/school. war "/>

</Target>

 

<Target name = "reload" description = "Reload webapplication" depends = "compile">

<Reload url = "$ {url}" username = "$ {username}" password = "$ {password}" path = "$ {path}"/>

</Target>

 

<Target name = "undeploy" description = "Remove webapplication">

<Undeploy url = "$ {url}" username = "$ {username}" password = "$ {password}" path = "$ {path}"/>

</Target>

<Targetname = "redeploy" description = "Remove and Install webapplication">

<Antcalltarget = "undeploy"/>

<Antcalltarget = "deploy"/>

</Target>

</Project>

Finally, run the file to deploy your project to remote tomcat.

For details, refer to the official documents:

Http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Executing_Manager_Commands_With_Ant