Ant: Ear Task Preserve Folder Paths

[Jerret Halter]

I am attempting to use the ant ear task in order to create an EAR for my project. All of my libraries are in a folder called "lib" and I also have a simple JAR, WAR, and EJB. When I look at the EAR after I have ran my current ear ant task all the my libraries are put inside the root folder of that EAR. For example

foo.ear

antlr.jar
axis.jar
foo.war
foo.jar
fooejb.jar

So if this is extracted to a folder it will look exactly like:

antlr.jar
axis.jar
foo.war
foo.jar
fooejb.jar

When it should really look like:

lib/antlr.jar
lib/axis.jar
foo.war
foo.jar
fooejb.jar

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Peter Johnson]

I build archive files in two steps - the first step is to gather all of the files for the archive into a single directory, using the directory structure that I want for the final archive. The second step is to use a simple jar task to build the archive. This approach comes in handy when working with an application server that allows to to deploy applications as either an archive file or as an exploded directory because then I I deploy either way.

But if you still want help in fixing your ear task, please post the task (don't forget the 'code' tags!).

[Carol Enderlin]

Include a zipfileset in your ear. The ant manual's war task documentation includes an example.

<zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs"
              prefix="images"/>