Tomcat start/stop/application hot-deployment - ANT script

build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project name="my project" default="copyStatic">

	<property name="INSTALL_ROOT" value="s:/tools/apache-tomcat-8.0.3/webapps/myproject"  />
	<property name="tomcat.home" value="s:/tools/apache-tomcat-8.0.3"  />
	
	<target name="copyStatic">
		
		
        <copy todir="${INSTALL_ROOT}/" verbose="true">
            <fileset dir="src/main/webapp"/>
        </copy>

        <copy todir="${INSTALL_ROOT}/WEB-INF/classes" verbose="true">
            <fileset dir="target/classes"/>
        </copy>

	</target>	
	
	<target name="start_tomcat">
		<exec dir="${tomcat.home}/bin/" executable="${tomcat.home}/bin/s.bat" spawn="true" />
	</target>

	<target name="stop_tomcat">
		<exec dir="${tomcat.home}/bin/" executable="${tomcat.home}/bin/shutdown.bat" spawn="true" />
	</target>
	
	<target name="wipe out">
		<delete dir="${INSTALL_ROOT}"/>
		<mkdir dir="${INSTALL_ROOT}"/>
	</target>
	
	<target name="z_re-create db">
		<sql
		    driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
		    url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/qa?autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf8&amp;characterSetResults=utf8&amp;connectionCollation=utf8_unicode_ci"
		    userid="root"
		    password=""
			classpath="./misc/db/com.springsource.com.mysql.jdbc-5.1.6.jar"
		    >

			drop database IF EXISTS qa;
			create database qa CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
			grant all privileges on qa.* to qa_user@localhost identified by 'qa_123_qa_1';
			grant all privileges on qa.* to qa_user@'127.0.0.1' identified by 'qa_123_qa_1';
			FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
		</sql>
	</target>


</project>