To Package the Hello Application Using asant

If applications are not packaged with a tool such as NetBeans IDE, you can use the asant utility shipped with the product. The asant utility is used to automate repetitive deployment tasks. It is a shell script that initializes the Application Server environment and launches the Jakarta Ant tool. For more information on the asant utility, see the Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 Reference Manual, and Chapter 3, The asant Utility, in Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9 Developer’s Guide.

The Hello application deployed earlier was already packaged into a WAR file. This section covers packaging the application's components into another WAR file. The build.xml file included with the Hello application contains the build targets.

1. If you have not already added install-dir/bin to your PATH environment variable, do so now.

2. Go to install-dir/samples/quickstart/ directory.

3. Type asant war.

   This command assembles the WAR file for the application in install-dir/samples/quickstart/build/assemble/war.