Excluding jar file from build

[Neibaf]

Hi,

I'm new here and I had to exclude a Jar file from my build path.

I working on an existing web application which uses tomcat as application server.
In the tomcat lib directory there is a false .jar which is just a binary file.

So netbeans would like to open it during compilation and an error occurs because it's not a jar

I don't have right to modify or relocate the jar file so, can I tell to netbeans to ignore it in any way?

May be with the ant file or any property for my project ?
I've a poor skill with ant files


Cheers Neibaf

[michael]

In the projects pane:
1. Right-click your project
2. go tp "properties..."
3. In the left tree, select the "Libraries" node
4. Uncheck the check box next to your library
5. Click "OK"
Done

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Neibaf [mailto:address-removed]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:41 PM
To: address-removed
Subject: [nbj2ee] Excluding jar file from build


Hi,



I'm new here and I had to exclude a Jar file from my build path.



I working on an existing web application which uses tomcat as application server.

In the tomcat lib directory there is a false .jar which is just a binary file.



So netbeans would like to open it during compilation and an error occurs because it's not a jar



I don't have right to modify or relocate the jar file so, can I tell to netbeans to ignore it in any way?



May be with the ant file or any property for my project ?

I've a poor skill with ant files





Cheers Neibaf

[Neibaf]

Thank you but i'm sorry,

I don't have any Library in the Libraries node (in the property frame).

In my project I have all libraries from java and tomcat/lib folder.
The bad library is not displayed when I expend the "tomcat" node, and it says that it can't open it.

[Melongo Annabel]

I would recommend you use an ant task that would exclude the "bad library" at deploy time. Something like:

<target name="deploy" depends="" description="deploy application">
<copy todir="${deploy.path}" preservelastmodified="true">
<fileset dir=".">
<exclude name="badlibrary.jar"/> // this is where you put the bad library. You can't use many lines of this or you can also use wild characters.
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>


From: Neibaf <address-removed>
To: address-removed
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:38:13 AM
Subject: [nbj2ee] Excluding jar file from build

Thank you but i'm sorry,



I don't have any Library in the Libraries node (in the property frame).



In my project I have all libraries from java and tomcat/lib folder.

The bad library is not displayed when I expend the "tomcat" node, and it says that it can't open it.

[Neibaf]

I've found another solution... but it's dirty.

In the private.properties file in j2ee.platform.classpath property my bad library file appears. I delete it but sometimes it re-appears.

Your solution seems working and it's a clean solution.

Regards,

Neibaf