Configuring Ant in Oracle Workshop

Question

Hi,
I am working through the "Definitive Guide to SOA" book, and attempting to configure Ant in Oracle Workshop 10.3.
I have to add the weblogic.jar file to the "Ant Home Directories". So I select "Ant Home Directories" and select "Add External JARs", locate the weblogic.jar (C:\oracle_sb\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\weblogic.jar).
Problem is I then get a "Specified Ant home does not contain a "lib" directory" error, and I can't click "OK".
I believe not adding this jar to the ant classpath is causing issues with deploying web services. Can anyone offer any assistance here?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I work on a project where we use Ant to deploy web applications and EJB applications to 9iAS from JDeveloper with Ant. With Ants <jar> / <ejbjar> tasks you create the JARs / WARs / EARs. Then you can run the deployment from within JDeveloper as a regular Java task like this:
<java jar="oc4j_remote_deploy.jar"
fork="true"
failonerror="true"
classpathref="test.jdev.classpath">
<jvmarg value="-Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=HTTPClient"/>
<jvmarg value="-DhttpProxy.host=${conf.proxy.host}"/>
<jvmarg value="-DhttpProxy.port=${conf.proxy.port}"/>
<jvmarg value="-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=${conf.proxy.exclude}"/>
<arg value="${dist.integration.server.url}"/>
<arg value="${dist.integration.server.user}"/>
<arg value="${dist.integration.server.password}"/>
<arg value="redeploy"/>
<arg path="${dist.integration.server.as}"/>
<arg file="${dist.ear}"/>
<arg value="${ant.project.name}"/>
<arg value="${dist.integration.server.oc4j.web-app}"/>
</java>
I deployed the EAR manually in JDeveloper and then copied the command that JDeveloper prints for the deployment.
Most of the variables are hopefully self-explaining. Here are the ones that arent.
The "oc4j_remote_deploy.jar" is in jdev\lib. You can get the classpath and the proxy settings (taken from your JDeveloper preferences) from deploying manuallly in JDeveloper. "dist.integration.server.url" is the servlet you deploy to - e.g., "http://myserver.com:1810/Oc4jDcmServletAPI/". "dist.integration.server.as" is the directory you installed the 9iAS instance into - e.g., "C:\\ORACLEIAS\\IASAPPSRV903". "dist.integration.server.oc4j.web-app" is the name of the OC4J you deploy into, e.g., "my-web-app".