Question on Ant script error in my build.xml file in the Eclipse IDE

[Melinda Savoy]

Currently I am working on my local XP box in Eclipse Helios. The version of ANT that I have loaded is apache-ant-1.8.2. I am a NEWBIE in regards to ANT and need some help.

The error I am getting in the build.xml file is: Default target dist does not exist in this project

However, when I go to the Eclipse workspace where I have my project: C:\eclipse-3.6-helios-SR1\Workspace\TestWebService\RequisitionWS

And the directory structure for my project, RequisitionWS, is:

.settings
build folder
dist folder
src folder
WebContent folder
.classpath
.project
build.xml

My build.xml file is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="RequisitionWS" default="dist" basedir=".">
	<description>
        Web Services build file
    </description>
	<!-- set global properties for this build -->
	<property name="src" location="src"/>
	<property name="build" location="build"/>
	<property name="dist" location="dist"/>
	<property name="webcontent" location="WebContent"/>
	
	<path id="classpath.server">
		<fileset dir="C:/tomcatserver/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/lib" includes="*.jar" />
	</path>
	
	<target name="init">
	      <!-- Create the time stamp -->
	      <tstamp/>
	      <!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
	      <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
	</target>
	
	<target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source " >
	      
	      <!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
	      <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}">
	      	<classpath>
				<path refid="classpath.server"/>
			</classpath>
	      </javac>
	      
	</target>
	
	<target name="war" depends="compile" description="generate the distribution war" >
	 	
	 	<!-- Create the war distribution directory -->
		<mkdir dir="${dist}/war" />
	
		<!-- Follow standard WAR structure -->
		<copy todir="${dist}/war/build/WEB-INF/">
			<fileset dir="${webcontent}/WEB-INF/">
				<include name="**"/>
			</fileset>
		</copy>
		<copy todir="${dist}/war/build/WEB-INF/classes/">
			<fileset dir="${build}">
				<include name="**"/>
			</fileset>
		</copy>
	 	<!--<copydir dest="${dist}/war/build/WEB-INF/" src="${webcontent}/WEB-INF/" />-->
	 	<!--<copydir dest="${dist}/war/build/WEB-INF/classes/" src="${build}" />-->
	
		<jar jarfile="${dist}/war/Requisition-${DSTAMP}.war" basedir="${dist}/war/build/"/>
	</target>
</project>

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? ANY help/direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[J J Singh]

Hi

Read the start of build.xml

<project name="RequisitionWS" default="dist" basedir=".">

it says default target is dist

But there is no target with name dist defined

there should be some target named dist similar to this

<target name="dist">

///some tasks


</target>

Hope it helps

[Melinda Savoy]

Thank you for the reply. That did it.