Question

Here is the ant statement –

 <java jar="${lib.dir}/selenium-server-standalone-2.8.0.jar" fork="true" spawn="true" />

And I want to do –

 <java jar="${lib.dir}/selenium-server-*.jar" fork="true" spawn="true" />

Hence I am not affected with version of jar I am using.

Answer 1

The Ant java task doesn’t support regular expressions there. But you can use a fileset to ‘find’ the jar:

<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" id="selenium.jar" includes="selenium-server-*.jar" />

Then you can refer to the file using the ant.refid: prefix:

<java jar="${ant.refid:selenium.jar}" fork="true" spawn="true" />

If your library directory contains multiple versions of the jar this won’t work: you need to decide which one to chose.
You could look into using a resource collection like first to pick just one, but I’m not sure that would necessarily give you the right one.