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Ant zip change base dir to zip at different level

I have an Ant zip task that looks like this:
<zip basedir="${workspace.dir}"
destfile="${build.output.dir}/test.zip"
includes="${eLibrary}/bin/com/**,
${Common}
excludes="${eLibrary}/lib,
${eLibrary}/src"
>
</zip>
The eLibrary folder has a structure similar to:
`--bin
`--com
`--lib
`--src
I'd like to have the zip file look like this:
`--eLibrary
`--com
`--Common
When the zip is created though it has the following structure:
`--eLibrary
`--bin
`--com
`--Common
I've tried various types of include statements, but they all include the bin folder:
includes="${eLibrary}/bin/**
includes="${eLibrary}/bin/com/**
includes="${eLibrary}/bin
includes="${eLibrary}/bin/com
Changing the basedir won't work because I also need the Common folder included. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

You can check the zip task documentation for examples on how to achieve this. The below snippet uses a zipfileset nested element which maps the included entries to the directories inside the archive.
<zip destfile="${build.output.dir}/test.zip">
<zipfileset dir="${eLibrary}/bin/com" prefix="${eLibrary}/com"/>
<zipfileset dir="${Common}" prefix="${Common}"/>
</zip>

Apache Ant {Compile javac srcdir} does not exist

I am new to apache ant and I am currently working on an apache Ant project. I Just started out, imported the project into workspace and tried to run the build.xml. I added all the libraries that come with the original project to the build path. I am having the following problem. Please someone else wrote the code and I am supposed to improve it. The directories this is all about exist in the project directory.
BUILD FAILED
C:\workspace\MyApp\build.xml:83: srcdir "C:\workspace\MyApp\${compile.javac.srcdir}" does not exist!
The error code is referencing the following part of the build.xml file
<target name="compile.default" depends="init">
<javac fork="yes" srcdir="${compile.javac.srcdir}" destdir="${compile.javac.destdir}" includes="${compile.javac.include}" excludes="${compile.javac.exclude}" classpath="${compile.javac.classpath}" debug="${compile.javac.debug}" optimize="${compile.javac.optimize}" deprecation="${compile.javac.deprecation}" verbose="${compile.javac.verbose}">
</javac>
<copy todir="${compile.javac.destdir}">
<fileset dir="${compile.javac.srcdir}" includes="${compile.copy.include}" excludes="${compile.copy.exclude}"/>
</copy>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init,compile.default" description="Compile all java source">
</target>
<!--+++++++++++++++-->
<!-- lib target(s) -->
<!--+++++++++++++++-->
<target name="lib.default" depends="init,compile">
<xmlbean schema="config/schemas/validate/1.0/validate.xsd" destfile="lib/glx-beans.jar" classpath="lib/xbean.jar:lib/jsr173_1.0_api.jar" />
<jar jarfile="${lib.filename}">
<fileset dir="${lib.srcdir}" excludes="${lib.exclude}" />
</jar>
</target>
<target name="lib" depends="init,compile,lib.default" description="Create all Project Libraries">
</target>
Would you please tell me what I am missing?

The ${compile.javac.srcdir} isn't defined. There are a few possibilities:
This is defined not in the build.xml, but in some sort of properties file. See if you have something like <property file="..."/> in your build script. My recommendation is to have all properties defined in the build.xml file, and use a properties file to override those settings. This way, the only build file that a developer needs in the build.xml file and doesn't have to worry about setting up a separate build.porperties file.
This is defined in the build.xml file under a particular task, but you forgot to say that your target where you use thisis dependent upon this task.
One of the things you can do is use the -d parameter when running Ant. I run the following command when running Ant with the -d parameter:
$ and -d 2>&1 | tee ant.out
I can then look at ant.out and see if somehow I didn't define that particular property. Maybe I had the wrong capitalization or misspelled the property name. For example, it's very likely I'll define the property as copmile.javac.srcdir because I don't know how to spell. Looking at the -d output can quickly point these types of errors out.
By the way, you shouldn't have all of your tasks dependent upon init since they're dependent upon compile.default anyway:
<target name="compile.default" depends="init">
....
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="compile.default">
....
</target>
<target name="lib" depends="compile,lib.default">
....
</target>
If I run the target lib, it will see compile is dependent upon compile.default which is dependent upon init. Thus, your build will run init, then compile.default, then compile, then 'lib.defaultand finallylib`.
If the init task is just setting up properties, you can do that outside of any task. Then, these properties will be setup before any task is executed. This way, they're not forgotten. If your init is also creating directories, you may want to move those <mkdir/> tasks in front of the task where that directory is used. For example, you may want to make the destdir uses in javac before the <javac/> task.
I find assigning default properties outside of any task, and creating directories before they are needed to simplify the build.xml. Plus, you're not creating a whole flock of unused directories if the user is merely compiling and not packaging the jar/war/etc.

create jar with custom manifest with multiple libraries in classpath

I'm trying to create a jar from my eclipse and in order to be able to use the external .jars, I'm using this manifest with multiple .jars in the classpath:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Sealed: true
Main-Class: src.BatchTester
Class-Path: . P:/Tools/xstream/1.4.2/lib/kxml2-2.3.0.jar P:/Tools/xstream/1.4.2/lib/xstream-1.4.2.jar P:/Tools/StringTemplate/4.0.5/lib/antlr-3.3-complete.jar P:/Tools/StringTemplate/4.0.5/lib/ST-4.0.5.jar P:/Tools/Jdbc/lib/sqljdbc4.jar
Obviously if I don't put the libraries in the classpath the following error appears:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/thoughtworks/xstream/XStream
But when I put them in the classpath the error changes to:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: src/BatchTester
So it seemps that it can't found my main class. I've tryed with several possibilities in the classpath, like adding or removing . to the classpath, but can't make it work.
Any idea of how can I solve this???
Thanks for your time and effort,
PS: After creating the .jar the classpath in the manifest inside looks like:
Class-Path: . P:/Tools/xstream/1.4.2/lib/kxml2-2.3.0.jar P:/Tools/xstr
eam/1.4.2/lib/xstream-1.4.2.jar P:/Tools/StringTemplate/4.0.5/lib/ant
lr-3.3-complete.jar P:/Tools/StringTemplate/4.0.5/lib/ST-4.0.5.jar P:
/Tools/Jdbc/lib/sqljdbc4.jar
with new lines and spaces, but even after changing it to the "right" format, I got the same problems.
PS2: I know that with some plugins like Fat-Jar you can make it work, but I don't want to insert more data than needed in my .jar

Finally I've copied all the libs into the /lib folder and add them into the .jar with an ant target since seems to be OK with the IT guys (because it is a small application).
Here is the ant(in case is useful for someone):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="BatchTester" default="compile" basedir=".">
<property name="external" value="lib/external-libs.jar"/>
<target name="compile">
<javac srcdir="jav"
source="1.6"
/>
<echo>Creating jar File</echo>
<!--create a new .jar with all the external jars in /lib-->
<jar jarfile="${external}">
<zipgroupfileset dir="lib/">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
</zipgroupfileset>
</jar>
<!--<sleep seconds="1"/>-->
<!--create .jar file-->
<jar jarfile="BatchTester.jar" index="true" filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain">
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="**/jav/**/*.class"/>
<exclude name="**/jav/**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
<zipfileset src="${external}">
<exclude name="META-INF/*.SF"/>
</zipfileset>
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="jav.BatchTester"/>
</manifest>
</jar>
<!--delete previously created extern .jar-->
<delete file="${external}"/>
</target>
</project>

Sorry If my questions sounds obvious for you.
*Launch Command *
In order to exclude any doubt, didn't you tried to launch your jar with this kind of command ?
java -jar myJar.jar -cp ./lib
If you use classpath option, you probably didn't ;). Option --classpath (or -cp) and -jar can't be uses together.
Prefer the use of relative path too, like ./lib instead of P:/Tools/... But, anyway, that won't solve your problem.
*Package Location *
As brimborium said, what is you real package ? src sounds very strange. We suspect an error around this.
In your BatchTester class, what have you written for package directive ? Nothing (i.e default package which isnot recommanded ?)?
Does you class begin with (get rid off comments)
public class BatchTester {
In that case, for sure, src should not be mentionned.
Here an example of manifest which work for me.
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: jrRevy
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_31
Main-Class: com.sopragroup.training.dojo1.MainSwingApp
Class-Path: dojo1-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT-lib/spring-core-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar doj
o1-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT-lib/spring-asm-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar [blablabla]
with the following execution structure
/
|
+ --dojo1-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
|
+ --dojo1-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT-lib/
|
+ --spring-core-3.1.1.RELEASE.jar
Obviously, I'm using maven for build my app, but the main idea is in.

The manifest doesn't allow absolute paths in the Class-Path: tag. You have two alternatives:
Use relative paths as you already mention in your own answer
Use absolute paths via file protocol. This has been answered elsewhere too and it works absolute versus relative path names in jar manifest
Class-Path: file:///P:/Tools/xstream/1.4.2/lib/kxml2-2.3.0.jar
In addition, you should not edit the manifest.mf manually without being aware of several limitations:
line maximum length must not exceed 72 characters, and after breaking one line you must insert an space in the first column.
There must be a carriage return after the last line otherwise, the file can't be parsed correctly

Netbeans - adding resource files to jar file with Ant

I want add some resource files (non-code text-based files) to the jar file in a Java project using Netbeans 6.9, I'd expect using Ant. I had thought that this would be reasonably simple...but after quite a bit of searching I can't find how to do it..! Any pointers in the right direction?

The answer I think I was looking for is as follows:
In the build.xml file (as per trashgod's answer) you can use the hooks already in the ant build script to add the following:
<target name="-post-jar">
<echo>Adding files to jar...</echo>
<jar destfile="dist/jarFileName.jar" update="true">
<fileset dir="${basedir}">
<include name="files/*"/>
</fileset>
</jar>
</target>
This adds the files directory and any files under it directly to the jar file.

If you choose File > Project Properties > Build > Packaging, you'll see a dialog that lets you exclude artifacts from the build; everything else is the source tree is included. The source of TreeIconDemo is a concrete example that inlcudes html files.
For more advanced tasks, examine the default build.xml generated for a freshly created project; it identifies various hooks into the predefined tasks. For example,
There exist several targets which are by default empty and which can be
used for execution of your tasks. These targets are usually executed
before and after some main targets. They are:
-pre-init: called before initialization of project properties
-post-init: called after initialization of project properties
-pre-compile: called before javac compilation
-post-compile: called after javac compilation
-pre-compile-single: called before javac compilation of single file
-post-compile-single: called after javac compilation of single file
-pre-compile-test: called before javac compilation of JUnit tests
-post-compile-test: called after javac compilation of JUnit tests
-pre-compile-test-single: called before javac compilation of single JUnit test
-post-compile-test-single: called after javac compilation of single JUunit test
-pre-jar: called before JAR building
-post-jar: called after JAR building
-post-clean: called after cleaning build products
Addendum: As an example, this target overrides -post-compile to print some statistics.
<project name="TreeIconDemo" default="default" basedir=".">
<import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
<target name="-post-compile">
<echo>build.dir: ${build.dir}</echo>
<length mode="all" property="build.size">
<fileset dir="${build.dir}">
<include name="**/*"/>
</fileset>
</length>
<echo>build.size: ${build.size}</echo>
</target>
</project>
Output:
$ ant compile
Buildfile: build.xml
...
-post-compile:
[echo] build.dir: build
[echo] build.size: 11992
compile:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL

specifying classpath for built-in ant tasks

I use the classpath attribute in custom Ant tasks to tell Ant where to find the external task jar, but how do I do the same for built-in tasks?
In my case I'd like to make sure ant uses my copy of jsch.jar for the scp task, and not one that my already be installed on the system. Is there any way I can <scp> while guaranteeing it's using my jsch.jar?

If your ant call uses $ANT_HOME, you could use just for that ant call a special ANT_HOME value to a custom ant installation, where you make sure your $ANT_HOME/lib contains the right copy of ant-jsch.jar.
See this SO question for more.

I think the best way to do it is to define your own task instead of messing with predefined tasks.
<taskdef name="myscp" class="..." classpath="jsch.jar"/>
<myscp .../>

I had the exact same problem and here's what I did: use Google's Jar Jar to change the package names.
Here's the build.xml i used:
<project name="Admin WAS Jython" default="jar">
<target name="jar" >
<taskdef name="jarjar" classname="com.tonicsystems.jarjar.JarJarTask"
classpath="jarjar-1.0.jar"/>
<jarjar jarfile="dist/ant-jsch-copy.jar">
<zipfileset src="ant-jsch.jar"/>
<rule pattern="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ssh.**" result="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ssh.copy.#1"/>
</jarjar>
</target>
Then in your ant project use the following:
<taskdef name="scp2"
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ssh.copy.Scp"
classpath="ant-jsch-copy.jar;jsch-0.1.43.jar"/>
and use the scp2 task instead of scp