Creating SDA (or other suitable archives) using ANT

Question

I have just competed writing a LoginModule that calls our product from WebAS. Until now I was using the NetWeaver Developer Studio to create the SDA file. But we need to create the SDA file (or onother suitable archive file) using ANT scripts so our automated build process can create it along with deployment files for other platforms. Please let me know if anyone can provide any info on this. Search of the forums and help has not yielded any result the whole day.
Thanks in advance.
Roshan

Answer 1

Yes, about a month back I discovered that I dont have to rename the zip file, but was too lazy to write it here.
About " do you have a task which deploys the sda to the server?" :
Search the forum. I remember reading something about deploying. There is also a PDF doc "Deploying J2EE Applications on SAP NetWeaver". I can email it to you if you cant find it.
I have some scripts that I copied from the forum but never used. You can check it out if it works:
<target name="deploy">
     <property name="webas.j2ee.home" value="D:/usr/sap/TWD/JC00/j2ee" />
     <property name="webas.deploying.dir" value="${webas.j2ee.home}/deploying" />
     <property name="app.name" value="SALoginModule" />
     <property name="webas.user" value="Administrator" />
     <property name="webas.password" value="Integra7" />
     <exec dir="${webas.deploying.dir}" executable="${webas.deploying.dir}/deploymanager.bat">
          <arg value="$/sap/Deployer.xml"/>
     </exec>
     <telnet server="localhost" port="50008">
          <read>Login:</read>
          <write>${webas.user}</write>
          <read>Password:</read>
          <write>${webas.password}</write>
          <read>&gt;</read>
          <write>JUMP 0</write>
          <read>You jumped on node</read>
          <write>ADD DEPLOY</write>
          <read>&gt;</read>
          <write>START_APP ${app.name}</write>
          <read>&gt;</read>
     </telnet>
</target>
<project name="test_sdm" basedir="." default="deploy">
<!--
AUTHOR: David Beisert http://www.beisert-btc.de
-->
<!--property name="server" value="localhost"/>
<property name="httpport" value="56000"/>
<property name="sdmport" value="56018"/-->
<property name="server" value="vmw0004"/>
<property name="httpport" value="54100"/>
<property name="sdmport" value="54118"/>
<property name="SDM_HOME" value="C:/usr/sap/SNE/JC60/SDM"/>
<target name="deploy">
     <taskdef name="sdm" classname="dbeisert.ant.ext.sap.SDMRemoteDeployTask" >
          <classpath >
               <pathelement location="$/sdmAnt.jar"/>
               <pathelement location="$\program\bin\SDM.jar"/>
               <fileset dir="$\program\lib">
               <include name="*/.jar"/>
               </fileset>
          </classpath>
     </taskdef>
     <sdm
          host="$"
          port="$"
          password="sdm"
          archive="../MY_EAR/MY_EAR.ear"/>
</target>
</project>