Question

I need to stop the glassfish server, deploy my war into the glassfish and then start it again using ant.

I can successfully copy the war and make necessary configuration changes using ant tasks. But how do I stop and start the glassfish server using ant?

Basically I would want to execute the startserv.bat file in /glassfish/bin using ant.

Please help

Edit

This is what I have tried so far.

<project name="Start Server" basedir="." default="startServer">

    <target name="startServer">
        <exec dir="G:\Program Files\glassfish3\glassfish\bin" executable="cmd.exe" os="Windows XP"> 
            <arg value="startserv.bat"/> 
        </exec>
    </target>

</project>

Answer 1

You may use exec task to start/stop server

Update:
You missing /c switch which used to run .bat files on Windows

<target name="startServer">
  <exec dir="G:\Program Files\glassfish3\glassfish\bin"
        executable="cmd.exe"
        os="Windows XP">
    <arg value="/c"/> 
    <arg value="startserv.bat"/> 
  </exec>
</target>