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Asked: 2026-05-12T09:25:32+00:00

I am working on a spring project. I use ant to deploy application and

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I am working on a spring project. I use ant to deploy application and STS (eclipse based) IDE to develop. I set the CATALINA_HOME environment variable 

 echo $CATALINA_HOME
/home/username/springsource/apache-tomcat

When I run the deploy ant task from IDE it deploys to a folder under 

/home/username/workspace/myproject/${env.CATALINA_HOME}/webapp

but not 

/home/username/springsource/apache-tomcat/webapp

Do you know any fix?

My build.properties file

src.dir=src
web.dir=web
build.dir=${web.dir}/WEB-INF/classes
name=myproject
appserver.home=${env.CATALINA_HOME}
deploy.path=${appserver.home}/webapps
appserver.lib=${appserver.home}/lib

and build.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="kervan" basedir="." default="usage">
<property environment="env"/>
<property file="build.properties"/>
<path id="cp">
<fileset dir="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
<include name="*.jar"/>
</fileset>
<fileset dir="${appserver.lib}">
<include name="servlet-api.jar"/>
</fileset>
<pathelement path="${build.dir}"/>
</path>
<target name="usage">
<echo message=""/>
<echo message="${name} build file"/>
<echo message="-----------------------------------"/>
<echo message=""/>
<echo message="Available targets are:"/>
<echo message=""/>
<echo message="build --> Build the application"/>
<echo message="deploy --> Deploy application as a WAR file"/>
<echo message=""/>
</target>
<target name="build"  description="Compile main source tree java files">
<mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
<javac destdir="${build.dir}" source="1.6" target="1.6"
debug="true" deprecation="false" optimize="false"
failonerror="true">
<src path="${src.dir}"/>
<classpath refid="cp"/>
</javac>
</target>
<target name="deploy" depends="build" description="Deploy application as a WAR file">
<war destfile="${name}.war"
webxml="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<fileset dir="${web.dir}">
<include name="**/*.*"/>
</fileset>
</war>
<copy todir="${deploy.path}" overwrite="true">
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="*.war"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
</project>
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re running from within Eclipse or an Eclipse-like environment, Eclipse can be kind of weird in that depending on how you launch it, it’s startup scripts won’t make your environment natively available to your in-IDE Ant build process.

    With my Eclipse-based Ant build, I had to manually set the environment. So for me, I right click on my project & go to “Properties”. Then I click on the “Builders” section. I select my “Ant Builder” and click “Edit…”. Under this section there’s an “Environment” tab where you can specify environment variables and their corresponding values.

    Even if you’re not using Eclipse exactly like I was, poke around in the build properties and you should be able to find a way to specify environment variables and make them available to the build process.

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