Question

Have a build process that can’t be edited and need to pack another war in the the ear that is generated. The ear is exploded so it’s just a matter of copying the war file into it but the application.xml needs to be updated so I’d like to find an ant task that will do this. Anyone know of one that will work?

Answer 1

ended up just doing :

<replace file="${j2ee.build.dir}/${j2ee.app..name}/META-INF/application.xml" token="&lt;/application&gt;" value="&lt;module&gt;&lt;web&gt;&lt;web-uri&gt;admin.war&lt;/web-uri&gt;&lt;context-root&gt;/admin&lt;/context-root&gt;&lt;/web&gt;&lt;/module&gt;&lt;/application&gt;"/>

Rather hackish but couldn’t come up with another way to edit the file easily