Ant build file to redeploy to Tomcat

Here is an example of an ant file that redeploys a web project to tomat. The neat thing is that as well as creating the war file, it also stops and restarts tomcat, all from ant.
I have found myself rewriting variations of this on a couple of projects recently, so I thought it was worth posting…
(Note it doesn’t include a compile target as I am doing it from my IDE)

<project name="{project.name}" basedir="." default="redeploy">
	<property file="build.properties"/>

	<target name="tomcat-stop">
		<java jar="${tomcat.home}/bin/bootstrap.jar" fork="true">
			<jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home=${tomcat.home}"/>
			<arg line="stop"/>
		</java>
	</target>

	<target name="cleanTomcat" depends="tomcat-stop">
		<delete dir="${project.deploydir}"/>
		<delete file="${project.deploywar}"/>
	</target>

	<target name="createWar" depends="cleanTomcat">
		<war destfile="${project.deploywar}" webxml="WEB-INF/web.xml">
			<lib dir="WEB-INF/lib"/>
			<classes dir="WEB-INF/classes"/>
			<fileset dir="." includes="*.jsp" />
			<fileset dir="WEB-INF"/>
		</war>
	</target> 

	<target name="tomcat-start">
		<java jar="${tomcat.home}/bin/bootstrap.jar" fork="true">
			<jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home=${tomcat.home}"/>
		</java>
	</target>

	<target name="redeploy" depends="createWar,tomcat-start"/>

</project>

And here is an example of the associated build.properties file

	tomcat.home=C:/Program Files/Apache/tomcat
	project.name=SampleProjectName
	project.warfilename={project.name}.war
	project.deploywar=${tomcat.home}/webapps/${project.name}.war
	project.deploydir=${tomcat.home}/webapps/${project.name}

Tags: ant, tomcat