'asant deploy-war' commmand failure

Question

The 'asant build' command and 'asant create-war' command succeeded (see below) but 'asant deploy-war' commmand did not. Then I had to use command 'asadmin deploydir --contextr
oot /hello1 C:/Sun/AppServer/j2eetutorial14/examples/web/hello1/build' in order to succeed. How could I make 'asant deploy-war' command succeed?
Ilyas
C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1>asant build
Buildfile: build.xml
j2ee-home-test:
init:
prepare:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1\bu
ld
copy:
[copy] Copying 3 files to C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hel
o1\build
build:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1\bu
ld\WEB-INF
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hell
1\build\WEB-INF
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds
C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1>asant create-war
Buildfile: build.xml
j2ee-home-test:
init:
prepare:
copy:
build:
create-war:
[echo] Creating the WAR....
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello
1\assemble\war\WEB-INF
[copy] Copying 3 files to C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hell
o1\assemble\war
[war] Building war: C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1\as
semble\war\hello1.war
[copy] Copying 1 file to C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello
1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds
C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1>asant deploy-war
Buildfile: build.xml
deploy-war:
admin_command_common:
[echo] Doing admin task deploy hello1.war
BUILD FAILED
file:C:/Sun/AppServer/j2eetutorial14/examples/common/targets.xml:56: The <sun-ap
pserv-admin> task doesn't support the "passwordfile" attribute.
Total time: 1 second
C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1>asadmin deploydir --contextr
oot /hello1 C:/Sun/AppServer/j2eetutorial14/examples/web/hello1/build
Command deploydir executed successfully.
C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\web\hello1>

Answer 1

Hi Jane,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I found targets.xml in C:\Sun\AppServer\j2eetutorial14\examples\common folder as follows:
<path id="classpath">
    <fileset dir="${j2ee.home}/lib">
      <include name="j2ee.jar"/>
    </fileset>
  </path>
  <target name="j2ee-home-test" >
          <!-- Test if j2ee.home is set properly by looking for j2ee.jar -->
    <available file="${j2ee.home}/lib/j2ee.jar" type="file" property="j2ee.jar.present" />
    <fail unless="j2ee.jar.present">
The j2ee.home property is not properly set in <INSTALL>/j2eetutorial14/examples/common/build.properties.
Set the j2ee.home property to the location of your Application Server installation.
On Windows, you must escape any backslashes in the j2ee.home property with another backslash or use forward slashes as a path separator. So, if your Application Server installation is C:\Sun\AppServer, you must set j2ee.home as follows:
    j2ee.home = C:\\Sun\\AppServer
    or
    j2ee.home=C:/Sun/AppServer
j2ee.home is currently set to: ${j2ee.home}
    </fail>
  </target>
  <target name="clean" >
    <delete dir="${build}" />
    <delete dir="${dist}" />   
    <delete dir="${assemble}" />
  </target>
  <path id="db.classpath">
    <fileset dir="${db.root}/lib">
      <include name="*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
  </path>
  <target name="create-db_common" depends="init"
     description="Create database tables and populate database." >
    <java classname="com.pointbase.tools.toolsCommander" fork="yes" >
      <jvmarg line="${db.jvmargs}" />
      <arg line="${db.driver} ${db.url} ${sql.script} ${db.user} ${db.pwd}" />
      <classpath refid="db.classpath" />
    </java>
  </target>
  <target name="admin_command_common">
    <echo message="Doing admin task ${admin.command}"/>
    <sun-appserv-admin
      command="${admin.command}"
      user="${admin.user}"
      passwordfile="${admin.password.file}"
      host="${admin.host}"
      port="${admin.port}"
      asinstalldir="${j2ee.home}" />
  </target>
  <target name="create-jdbc-resource_common">
    <antcall target="admin_command_common">
      <param name="admin.command"
        value="create-jdbc-resource
         --connectionpoolid ${conpool.name} ${jdbc.resource.name}" />
    </antcall>
  </target>
  <target name="delete-jdbc-resource_common">
    <antcall target="admin_command_common">
      <param name="admin.command"
        value="delete-jdbc-resource ${jdbc.resource.name}" />
    </antcall>
  </target>
  <target name="deploy-war">
    <antcall target="admin_command_common">
      <param name="admin.command"
        value="deploy ${war.file}" />
    </antcall>
  </target>
  <target name="undeploy-war">
    <antcall target="admin_command_common">
      <param name="admin.command"
        value="undeploy ${example}" />
    </antcall>
  </target>
  <property environment="env" />
  <target name="listprops"
     description="Displays values of some of the properties of this build file">
     <property file="../../common/admin-password.txt" />
     <echo message="Path information" />
     <echo message="j2ee.home = ${j2ee.home}" />
     <echo message="j2ee.tutorial.home = ${j2ee.tutorial.home}" />
     <echo message="env.Path = ${env.Path}" />
     <echo message="env.PATH = ${env.PATH}" />
     <echo message="" />
     <echo message="Classpath information" />
     <echo message="classpath = ${env.CLASSPATH}" />
     <echo message="" />
     <echo message="Admin information" />
     <echo message="admin.password = ${AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD}" />
     <echo message="admin.password.file = ${admin.password.file}" />
     <echo message="admin.host = ${admin.host}" />
     <echo message="admin.user = ${admin.user}" />
     <echo message="admin.port = ${admin.port}" />
     <echo message="https.port = ${https.port}" />
     <echo message="" />
     <echo message="Domain information" />
     <echo message="domain.resources = ${domain.resources}" />
     <echo message="domain.resources.port = ${domain.resources.port}" />
     <echo message="" />
     <echo message="Database information" />
     <echo message="db.root = ${db.root}" />
     <echo message="db.driver = ${db.driver}" />
     <echo message="db.host = ${db.host}" />
     <echo message="db.port = ${db.port}" />
     <echo message="db.sid = ${db.sid}" />
     <echo message="db.url = ${db.url}" />
     <echo message="db.user = ${db.user}" />
     <echo message="db.pwd = ${db.pwd}" />
     <echo message="url.prop = ${url.prop}" />
     <echo message="ds.class = ${ds.class}" />
     <echo message="db.jvmargs = ${db.jvmargs}" />
  </target>I[b] am also struggeling wih this topic 'DB2 UDB jdbc access problem while using J2EE SDK 1.4'. Please see the forum.
Thank you and much appreciated! Ilyas