gradle: copy war to tomcat directory

Question

I\'m trying to write a Gradle task which copies generated war files to my local tomcat instance:

This isn\'t working and I\'m not sure how to debug it:

Answer 1

Please, make sure the war archive is getting bundled before deploylocal is executed. Maybe, you could define a dependency:

task deploylocal(dependsOn: build) << {

NB There is a convention property in java plugin named libsDir. It allows you to reference build/libs directory in better way:

 task deploylocal(dependsOn: build) << {
    println "Copy from ${libsDir.getPath()} into ${tomcatHome}/webapps"
    copy{
      from libsDir
      into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"
      include '*.war'
    }
  }