Eclipse with Java EE (EJB), ANT and Jenkins / Hudson

ant, eclipse, ejb-3.0, jakarta-ee, jenkins

Solution

Since I did not found anything that suited for me, I wrote an ant script that covered my needs on my own.

Here is my solution if this helps anyone in the future: `

<project basedir="." default="build" name="Project">

<available property="glassfishdir" value="/opt/glassfish3/glassfish/modules" 
         file="/opt/glassfish3/glassfish/modules" type="dir" />

<!-- ########### Property Declarations ###################################################################################################################  -->
<property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
<property name="target" value="1.6"/>
<property name="source" value="1.6"/>
<property name="builddir" value="build" />
<property name="outputartifacts" value="out" />

<property name="web.name" value="ProjectWeb" />
<property name="web.projectpath" value="ProjectWeb"/>
<property name="web.src" value="${web.projectpath}/src" />
<property name="web.builddir" value="${builddir}/web" />
<property name="web.builddir.classes" value="${web.builddir}/WEB-INF/classes"/>

<property name="ejb.name" value="ProjectEJB" />
<property name="ejb.projectpath" value="ProjectEJB"/>
<property name="ejb.src" value="${ejb.projectpath}/src"/>
<property name="ejb.builddir" value="${builddir}/ejb" />
<property name="ejb.builddir.classes" value="${ejb.builddir}/classes" />

<property name="ejbclient.name" value="ProjectEJBClient" />
<property name="ejbclient.projectpath" value="ProjectEJBClient"/>
<property name="ejbclient.src" value="${ejbclient.projectpath}/src"/>
<property name="ejbclient.builddir" value="${builddir}/ejbclient" />
<property name="ejbclient.builddir.classes" value="${ejbclient.builddir}/classes"/>

<property name="ear.name" value="ProjectApplication" />
<property name="ear.dir" value="ProjectEAR" />

<!-- ########### Main Targets ###################################################################################################################   -->
<target name="build" depends="create-ear">
</target>

<target name="clean-build">
    <antcall target="clean" />
    <antcall target="build" />
</target>

<target name="clean">
    <delete dir="${builddir}"/>
    <delete dir="${outputartifacts}"/>
</target>

<target name="init">
    <mkdir dir="${outputartifacts}" />
</target>

<!-- ########### EJB App ###################################################################################################################    -->
<target name="init-ejb" depends="init">
    <mkdir dir="${ejb.builddir}" /> 
    <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="${ejb.builddir.classes}">
        <fileset dir="${ejb.src}">
            <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
        </fileset>
    </copy>
</target>
<target name="build-ejb" depends="init-ejb">
    <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="${ejb.builddir.classes}" includeantruntime="false" source="${source}" target="${target}">
        <src path="${ejb.src}"/>
        <classpath>
            <fileset dir="${glassfishdir}">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>  

            <fileset dir="${outputartifacts}">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>                  
        </classpath>
    </javac>
</target>

<!-- ########### WEB ###################################################################################################################    -->
<target name="init-web" depends="init">
    <mkdir dir="${web.builddir.classes}"/>  
    <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="${web.builddir}">
        <fileset dir="${web.projectpath}/WebContent">
        </fileset>
    </copy>
    <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="${web.builddir.classes}">
        <fileset dir="${web.src}">
            <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
        </fileset>
    </copy>
</target>

<target depends="init-web,create-ejb-client" name="build-web">
    <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="${web.builddir.classes}" includeantruntime="false" source="${source}" target="${target}">
        <src path="${web.src}"/>
        <classpath>
            <fileset dir="${glassfishdir}">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>
            <fileset dir="out/">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>  
        </classpath>
    </javac>
</target>
<!-- ############## EJB CLIENT ################################################################################################################ -->
<target name="init-ejb-client" depends="init">
    <mkdir dir="${ejbclient.builddir}"/>
    <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="${ejbclient.builddir.classes}">
        <fileset dir="${ejbclient.src}">
            <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
        </fileset>  
    </copy>
</target>


<target depends="init-ejb-client" name="build-ejb-client">
    <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="${ejbclient.builddir.classes}" includeantruntime="false" source="${source}" target="${target}">
        <src path="${ejbclient.src}"/>
        <classpath>
            <fileset dir="${glassfishdir}">
                <include name="**/*.jar"/>
            </fileset>          
        </classpath>
    </javac>
</target>


<!-- ############ CREATE ARCHIVES################################################################################################################## -->
<target name="create-web" depends="build-web">
    <war destfile="${outputartifacts}/${web.name}.war" basedir="${web.builddir}" webxml="${web.projectpath}/WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml"/>
</target>

<target name="create-ejb-client" depends="build-ejb-client">
    <jar destfile="${outputartifacts}/${ejbclient.name}.jar" basedir="${ejbclient.builddir.classes}" includes="**/*"/>
</target>

<target name="create-ejb" depends="build-ejb">
    <jar destfile="${outputartifacts}/${ejb.name}.jar" basedir="${ejb.builddir.classes}" includes="**/*">
        <manifest>
            <attribute name="Class-Path" value="${ejbclient.name}.jar"/>
        </manifest>
    </jar>
</target>

<target name="create-ear" depends="create-ejb-client,create-web,create-ejb">
    <ear destfile="${outputartifacts}/${ear.name}.ear" appxml="${ear.dir}/EarContent/META-INF/application.xml">
        <fileset dir="${outputartifacts}" includes="*.jar,*.war"/>
    </ear>
</target>


</project>

`

Problem

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