Include directory in WAR using Ant

Question

I am building a war file using ANT and I want to include the src directory into the war file. When I use the fileset element, only the content of that folder is included. I want the src directory to be included into the WEB-INF folder. I don't want to copy the sources to the WEB-INF folder on disk. Ant properly includes the jars from my lib directory into WEB-INF/lib without copying them in my project.

So I will have something like this:

/WEB-INF
/WEB-INF/src
/WEB-INF/classes
/WEB-INF/lib
/META-INF

The target looks like this:

<target name="war" depends="init">
    <war destfile="dist/web.war" webxml="WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml">
        <fileset dir="WebContent"/>
        <lib dir="WebContent/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        <lib dir="lib"/>
        <classes dir="build/classes"/>
        <classes dir="config"/>
    </war>
</target>

ewan.chalmers · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-09T11:32:44.413

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I assume you were trying to include src something like this:

<fileset dir="src"/>

It should work if you use this:

<fileset dir="." includes="src/**"/>

If you need to put a file or dir to a specific path in the war, you can use zipfileset instead and its prefix attribute, e.g.

<zipfileset dir="." includes="src/**" prefix="WEB-INF"/>

(See also examples in the war task documentation, which include usage of zipfileset).

edited Jan 09 '12 at 11:32

answered Jan 09 '12 at 10:18

ewan.chalmers

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Thanks, we're half way there. Now the 'src' folder is in the root of the WAR. Is there a way to get it into WEB-INF? – udeleng Jan 09 '12 at 11:07
you could do a copy of your *src* folder in the dist folder and them include. – jenaiz Jan 09 '12 at 11:31
@udeleng, if you wanna place some folder/files into WEB-INF, just do it that way: – joninx Apr 23 '15 at 12:22

Include directory in WAR using Ant

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