The Bootstrap Group has developed Ant targets for automatically performing the following tasks. They

• Unpack Tomcat into a specified location
  
  
  
  


• Start Tomcat
  
  
  
  


• Stop Tomcat and wait for it to exit
  
  
  
  


• Reload any or all contexts (applications)
  
  
  
  

The cool part is that during the unpacking, it automatically configures Tomcat settings like docBase and Admin password, based on the local directory structure and on configurable Ant properties.

So, for instance, your developers can check out your project anywhere on their hard disk, run "ant tomcat-unpack", and then get a Tomcat that knows where the app root is (without even needing to install your apps in Tomcat's webapps directory).

The targets are in the .

As of 12/4/02, they look like this:

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			
			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			dest="build/temp/reload-calliope.out"
			

			verbose="on"
			

			username="admin"
			

			password="${admin-password}"/>
			

			

			dest="build/temp/reload-integration.out"
			

			verbose="on"
			

			username="admin"
			

			password="${admin-password}"/>