{"id":210,"date":"2013-07-28T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2013-07-28T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T15:17:01","slug":"how-to-integrate-ant-with-tomcat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shirishranjit.com\/blog1\/technical-posts\/how-to-integrate-ant-with-tomcat","title":{"rendered":"How to integrate Ant with Tomcat"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to integrate Ant with Tomcat<\/h1>\n

Objective<\/b>:\u00a0 Use Ant script to build and deploy application into an Apache Tomcat container.<\/p>\n

Solution<\/b>:\u00a0 Apache provides ant \u201ctaskdef\u201d for most of tomcat management features such as start, stop, deploy, undeply, and redeploy.<\/p>\n

There are few pre-requisites or dependencies before those ant task can be used on a tomcat server. Following are pre-requisites:<\/p>\n

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  1. Must have catalina-ant.jar file in the library path for the tomcat taskdefs. This is part of Tomcat deployment. This jar must match the version of the tomcat that you are targeting to deploy.<\/li>\n
  2. The tomcat URL must be either\u00a0http:\/\/localhost:8080\/manager<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0http:\/\/localhost:8080\/manager\/text<\/a>. The new version uses \/text while the older version does not require it.<\/li>\n
  3. Add roles and a user in tomcat tomcat-users.xml file. Add following roles to the user<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n