How to start and stop jboss server using Ant task?

Question

I need to stop, deploy my ear file and start Jboss server using the Ant tasks.

I am able to compile, build and deploy my J2EE application as an ear file into the JBoss server successfully using Ant tasks. We can see the redeployment of my application in the jboss console. I want to stop the server before deployment and start the server.

Is there any way to do this ?

Answer 1

Here how you start/stop JBoss app container including deploy an application :

<!-- Stop Jboss -->
<target name="stop-jboss" description="Stops back-end EJB container" >
    <exec executable="${jboss.bin.dir}/shutdown.bat" spawn="true">
        <arg line="-S" />
    </exec>
    <echo>+-----------------------------+</echo>
    <echo>| J B O S S   S T O P P E D   |</echo>
    <echo>+-----------------------------+</echo>
</target>

<!-- Start Jboss -->
<target name="start-jboss" description="Starts back-end EJB container" >
    <exec executable="${jboss.bin.dir}/run.bat" spawn="true">
    </exec>
    <echo>+-----------------------------+</echo>
    <echo>| J B O S S   S T A R T E D   |</echo>
    <echo>+-----------------------------+</echo>
</target>

<!-- deploy target-->
<target name="deploy-war" description="deploy war file" depends="prepare">
  <sequential>
    <antcall target="stop-jboss" />
    <war destfile="${file.name}" webxml="conf/web.xml">
       <classes dir="bin" />
    </war>
    <antcall target="start-jboss" />
        <echo>+----------------------------+</echo>
        <echo>|   W A R  D E P L O Y E D   |</echo>
        <echo>+----------------------------+</echo>
  </sequential>
</target>

Hope this is helpful :)