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The 'tomcat-demo' project before executing our AntSW script is shown below.

We can execute our 'war-version' target on 'tomcat-demo' by adding the 'tomcat-demo' build.xml file to our EclipseSW Ant view and double-clicking on it.

Running 'war-version' sends the following results to the console.

Buildfile: C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\build.xml
      [var] Setting 'war-file-name' variable to 'tomcat-demo.war'
      [var] Setting 'build-directory' variable to 'build'
war-version:
      [var] Setting 'build-directory' variable to 'build-version'
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\build-version
      [var] Setting 'war-file-name' variable to 'tomcat-demo-1.0.war'
      [war] Building war: C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\build-version\tomcat-demo-1.0.war
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 843 milliseconds

If we examine our project structure now, we can see that the 'tomcat-demo-1.0.war' file has been created in the 'build-version' directory. A build.number file has also been created to keep track of the build number.

I should mention here that in my build-main.xml file, I created a new 'kitchen-sink (version)' task that would let me automatically build and deploy my versioned warW file.

	<target name="kitchen-sink" depends="compile,war,pscp,undeploy,deploy-from-server,mail-build-and-deploy" />
	<target name="kitchen-sink (version)" depends="compile,war-version,pscp,undeploy,deploy-from-server,mail-build-and-deploy" />

We can execute 'kitchen-sink (version)' by double-clicking on it in the Eclipse Ant view.

The output of this execution is displayed in the console. As you can see, it builds and deploys the 'tomcat-demo-1.1.war' file.

Buildfile: C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\build.xml
      [var] Setting 'war-file-name' variable to 'tomcat-demo.war'
      [var] Setting 'build-directory' variable to 'build'
clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\bin
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\bin
copy-non-java-files:
     [copy] Copying 1 file to C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\bin
compile:
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\bin
war-version:
      [var] Setting 'build-directory' variable to 'build-version'
      [var] Setting 'war-file-name' variable to 'tomcat-demo-1.1.war'
      [war] Building war: C:\projects\workspace\tomcat-demo\build-version\tomcat-demo-1.1.war
pscp:
     [echo] uploading war file to server using pscp
     [exec] Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1
     [exec] We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY_Release_0.58
     [exec] Using SSH protocol version 2
     [exec] Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
     [exec] Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
     [exec] Host key fingerprint is:
     [exec] ssh-rsa 1024 --:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--:--
     [exec] Initialised AES-256 client->server encryption
     [exec] Initialised HMAC-SHA1 client->server MAC algorithm
     [exec] Initialised AES-256 server->client encryption
     [exec] Initialised HMAC-SHA1 server->client MAC algorithm
     [exec] Using username "---".
     [exec] Sent password
     [exec] Access granted
     [exec] Opened channel for session
     [exec] Started a shell/command
     [exec] Using SFTP
     [exec] Connected to ---.---.---.---
     [exec] Sending file tomcat-demo-1.1.war, size=230510
     [exec] Sent EOF message
     [exec] Server sent command exit status 0
     [exec] All channels closed. Disconnecting
     [exec] Server closed network connection
     [exec] tomcat-demo-1.1.war (excess output removed here...)
     [echo] done uploading war file to server using pscp
undeploy:
 [undeploy] OK - Undeployed application at context path /tomcat-demo
deploy-from-server:
     [echo] deploying server war file
   [deploy] OK - Deployed application at context path /tomcat-demo
     [echo] done deploying
mail-build-and-deploy:
     [mail] Sending email: tomcat-demo-1.1.war was uploaded to the server and deployed
     [mail] Sent email with 0 attachments
kitchen-sink (version):
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 12 seconds

In our Navigator view, we can see the 'tomcat-demo-1.1.war' file has been created in the 'build-version' directory.

That wasn't too bad, was it? In a few quick steps we were able to build a versioned war file and deploy it by modifying our ant-utilities build-main.xml file. As you have seen (if you read the other Ant tutorials), it's taken several hours to write all the targets in build-main.xml, but once we've written them, it's very easy to expand upon them and chain them together.

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