Use ANT to create EAR for IBM WAS server without RAD or RBU

Question

Is it possible to create and use IBM Ant tasks without installing RAD (Ratinal Application Developer) or RBU (Rational Build Utility). I would like to instead just use ANT and copy any jars necessary for the tasks to run. I have tried this but get exceptions where more classes are necessary. We normally run the builds in a headless ant build but it is becoming increasing costly to keep this up since the different build servers require a license for the RAD or RBU install. Any thoughts on this?

I have done this so far:

<path id="was_classpath">
    <fileset dir="c:\rad_extension\lib">
        <include name="*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
</path>


<taskdef name="earExport" classname="com.ibm.etools.j2ee.ant.EARExport"
       classpathref="was_classpath" />
<taskdef name="projectBuild" classname="com.ibm.etools.ant.extras.ProjectBuild"
       classpathref="was_classpath" />
<taskdef name="projectGetErrors" classname="com.ibm.etools.ant.extras.ProjectGetErrors"
       classpathref="was_classpath" />

<projectBuild ProjectName="MyProject"
       failonerror="false" DebugCompilation="true" BuildType="full" />

I have created the folder "C:\rad_extension\lib" with the jars:

antextras.jar
antj2ee.jar
antserver.jar
org.eclipse.core.runtime_.jar
org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.nl1_1.1.200.v200809240100.jar
org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.nl2_1.1.200.v200809240100.jar
org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks_1.1.201.v200811060900.jar
resources-ant.jar

But I am still getting the following error:

taskdef A class needed by class com.ibm.etools.j2ee.ant.EARExport cannot be found: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException using the classloader

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '13 at 14:29

You are still going to need the ANT runtime jars. In my case RAD 8.0.4 there are in: {install-dir}\SDPShared\plugins\og.apache.ant_1.7.1.v.20100518\lib*

Depending on what tasks your build uses, you may need a few other jars. You can figure out which ones by looking at the Ant->Runtime->Tasks tab in Windows->Preferences.

Use ANT to create EAR for IBM WAS server without RAD or RBU

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