Problem in ant script (starting tomcat)...

Question

Hi,
in my ant script (build.xml) I have some targets to start/stop tomcat:
    <!-- ================================ -->
    <!-- start/stop tomcat servlet engine -->
    <!-- ================================ -->
    <!-- check whether server is already running -->
    <target name="-started">
        <condition property="server.started">
            <and>
                <socket port="${tomcat.port}" server="${tomcat.server}"/>
            </and>
        </condition>
    </target>
    <!-- start tomcat -->
    <target name="start" depends="-started" description="start tomcat server"
        unless="server.started">
        <echo message="Starting tomcat servlet engine..."/>
            <java classname="org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap" fork="yes">
            <jvmarg value="-Djava.endorsed.dirs=${catalina.dir}/common/endorsed"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.base=${catalina.dir}"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home=${catalina.dir}"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Djava.io.tmpdir=${catalina.dir}/temp"/>
            <arg value="start"/>
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar"/>
                <pathelement location="${catalina.dir}/bin/bootstrap.jar"/>
            </classpath>
        </java>
    </target>
    <!-- check whether server is still running -->
    <target name="-stopped">
        <condition property="server.stopped">
            <and>
                <socket port="${tomcat.port}" server="${tomcat.server}"/>
                <not>
                    <isset property="server.started"/>
                </not>
            </and>
        </condition>
    </target>
    <!-- stop tomcat -->
    <target name="stop" depends="-stopped" description="stop tomcat server"
        if="server.stopped">
        <echo message="Stopping tomcat servlet engine..."/>
        <java classname="org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap" fork="yes">
            <jvmarg value="-Djava.endorsed.dirs=${catalina.dir}/common/endorsed"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.base=${catalina.dir}"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Dcatalina.home=${catalina.dir}"/>
            <jvmarg value="-Djava.io.tmpdir=${catalina.dir}/temp"/>
            <arg value="stop"/>
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar"/>
                <pathelement location="${catalina.dir}/bin/bootstrap.jar"/>
            </classpath>
        </java>
    </target>The problem I have is, when using another target which depends on the tomcat start target, for example my list target:
    <target name="list" depends="start" description="list installed web applications">
        <list url="${url}" username="${username}"
            password="${password}"/>
    </target>When executing the list target, tomcat starts up correctly but the list target is not executed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
- Stephan

Answer 1

No, I don't think that's the problem.
In my opinion, the problem has something to do with
fork="yes"in the start target.
But how can I tell ant to first execute another target (the target that starts tomcat) and then execute for example the list target (which lists all the installed web apps)? When using the depends attribute it doesn't work:
<target name="list" depends="start">
    <list url=.../>
</target>When executing the list target, tomcat starts automatically (start target) but the list target is not executed after that :-(
Any ideas?
Best regards
- Stephan