Question

How do you call a specific target in all build.xml located in all subdirectories using wildcards (ie not hard coding the subdirectory names)? The below answer is hardcoded. Is there a way to do it without hardcode?

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Answer 1

I’ll setup different properties within my build.properties file. I use these to dynamically build paths in my targets.

Define the location of your build.properties file:

  <!--  all properties are in build.properties --> 
  <property file="build.properties" /> 

Use those properties in your targets:

Properties in the build properties are similar to setting up an .ini file:

project.rootdir=c:/Deploy
project.tempbuilddir = c:/Deploy/Temp/Inetpub
project.builddir=c:/Deploy/Inetpub
# Build prefix will be added to that tags urls (.../tags/${project.buildprefix}Build_${today.date})
project.buildprefix=ACA_

I guess you could use a dynamic file as your properties file, if necessary, as long as you define the proper path to the file. You could point it to a server-side file to dynamically write your properties file (ColdFusion, PHP, JSP, whatever).