Sometimes, when building an application, there is a need for some SSH command execution on the remote server. An example of such command could be: Redeployment of an application, Server restart, Temporary files removal, Custom script execution. Have no fear – SSHExec is here! You can easily achieve remote command invocation, using an ANT Task sshexec. An example of its usage could be this snippet (note that remote.* variables are taken from the *....
I wanted to find some solution to a problem of automatic generation of build numbers/version identifiers using an ANT. I figured out that I can achieve it in the following way: <target name="numerate.version" description="Generates version number and sets it in Client properties file."> <tstamp> <format property="build.time" pattern="yy-MM-dd_hh:mm" unit="hour" /> </tstamp> <buildnumber file="build.number" /> <property name="version.code" value="${build.version}/${build.time}/${build.number}" /> <echo>Version: ${version.code}</echo> <replaceregexp file="${client.commonsi18n.pl}" match="(version[ \t]*=[ \t]*)+.*$" byline="true" replace="\1${version.code}" /> </target> A short description what is going on:...