ANT and SSH

Author: Kasper B. Graversen, 08/12/07
Keywords: ANT, Build script, SSH
Abstract: ANT is able to significantly reduce the time you spend on distributing your application. This is especially true if your application needs distributing on on multiple servers. This guide explains how to automate uploading files using SSH through ANT.
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ANT and SSH

Ant has been extended to be able to send files to servers over SSH. This may significantly reduce the time it takes you to distribute your applications, documents, etc. Before you can have ANT do your repetitive SSH upload work, you first need to install an additional jar file from foosite. Download the jar file and place it in your ant-install/lib/ dir.

The following script takes care of the distribution. 
<property name="site1.release"
    value="${user}:${password}@www.foo.com:/usr/local/webserver/webapps/foo"/>
...

<target name="copy-online" depends="make_jar">
    <scp todir="${site1.release}/"  trust="yes" >
        <fileset dir="${dir.dst}" >
            <include name="**/*.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </scp>
</target>



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