[Anthill] Re: Anthill hangs with <exec>

[Ted Liefeld]

While it is a Tomcat server, we have quite a bit on top of Tomcat and 
the goal was to test a full installation with our installer and not just 
updater the war file which tests the app but not the installer.

I feel that this is an anthill issue though since running the same ant 
build file from ant at the command line launches the application and 
then exits, leaving it running.  Doing it from anthill leaves anthill 
hanging.

In any case I have found a workaround.  Essentially I created a seperate 
JSP page on the anthill Tomcat server to call the ant exec task that 
starts the server.  Thus anthill just sees a url call and the process 
belongs to the other servlet so anthill does not hang.

Ted

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This is not really an Anthill issue, but is an Ant and Windows issue. 
The Ant exec task is synchronus as well as Windows batch files.  But 
there are possiblities depending on the type of server your trying to 
start.

If it is Tomcat server, then you don't need to bounce the server to 
reload your application but can instead use the Tomcat manager tasks. 
More details are needed before we can help you.


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