How to combine 3 steps in ant build.xml into one step for Netbeans to generate a signed jar to run in web start? - netbeans

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My web start app ran fine, but I realized there is a lib dir I need to copy into the tomcat ROOT dir in order for my web start app to work, but I want to just combine all my jars into one big jar so I just need to copy one file each time I update the project. I searched on the web and found a solution to combine all jars into one, with the following step, which was mentioned at : http://arunasujith.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-build-fat-jar-using-netbeans.html
I rewrote my build.xml to look like this :
<project name="Test_Tool" default="default" basedir=".">
<description>Builds, tests, and runs the project Test_Tool.</description>
<import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
<target name="package-into-one-jar" depends="jar">
<property name="store.jar.name" value="Test_Tool"/>
<!-- don't edit below this line -->
<property name="store.dir" value="dist"/>
<property name="store.jar" value="${store.dir}/${store.jar.name}.jar"/>
<echo message="Packaging ${application.title} into a single JAR at ${store.jar}"/>
<jar destfile="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar" filesetmanifest="skip">
<zipgroupfileset dir="dist" includes="*.jar"/>
<zipgroupfileset dir="dist/lib" includes="*.jar"/>
<manifest><attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main.class}"/></manifest>
</jar>
<zip destfile="${store.jar}"><zipfileset src="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar" excludes="META-INF/*.SF, META-INF/*.DSA, META-INF/*.RSA"/></zip>
<delete file="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar"/>
<delete dir="${store.dir}/lib"/>
</target>
</project>
But when I ran it, it said there are some files unsigned, and can't run from html page, so I did some more search and found a way to sign the jar file, which is mentioned at : http://www.asjava.com/ant/how-do-i-sign-jar-files-in-ant/
So I've come up with an script [ sign_jar.xml ] look like this :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="ant to create keystore and sign jars" default="signjars" basedir=".">
<tstamp/>
<property name="build.output.dir" value="C:/Dir_Test_Tool/dist"/>
<property name="build.classes.dir" value="C:/Dir_Test_Tool/dist"/>
<property name="verisign.key.store" value="${build.output.dir}/.keystore"/>
<property name="verisign.key.storepass" value="asjava.com"/>
<property name="verisign.key.alias" value="asjava"/>
<property name="verisign.key.pass" value="asjava.com"/>
<target name="signjars">
<mkdir dir="${build.output.dir}"/>
<genkey alias="${verisign.key.alias}" verbose="true" storepass="${verisign.key.storepass}"
keypass="${verisign.key.pass}" validity="365" keystore="${verisign.key.store}">
<dname>
<param name="CN" value="AsJava.com Group"/>
<param name="OU" value="Jim"/>
<param name="O" value="AsJava.com"/>
<param name="C" value="US"/>
</dname>
</genkey>
<signjar jar="${build.classes.dir}/Test_Tool.jar"
signedjar="${build.output.dir}/Test_Tool.jar"
alias="${verisign.key.alias}"
storepass="${verisign.key.storepass}"
keystore="${verisign.key.store}"
keypass="${verisign.key.pass}"/>
</target>
</project>
After all the changes, I needed to do the following to get the signed big jar file :
<1> Build my project in Netbeans
<2> In files view of the project right click build.xml file and then select Runtarget >> Other Targets >> package-into-one-jar
<3> In files view of the project right click sign_jar.xml file and then select Runtarget >> signjars
Now it works as I wished : One big jar that is signed.
But that's 3 steps in order to achieve this, there must be an easier way, why can't it be done in one step ? So I combined the above files into one, which looked like this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Test_Tool" default="default" basedir=".">
<description>Builds, tests, and runs the project Test_Tool.</description>
<import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
<target name="package-into-one-jar" depends="jar">
<property name="store.jar.name" value="Test_Tool"/>
<property name="store.dir" value="dist"/>
<property name="store.jar" value="${store.dir}/${store.jar.name}.jar"/>
<echo message="Packaging ${application.title} into a single JAR at ${store.jar}"/>
<jar destfile="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar" filesetmanifest="skip">
<zipgroupfileset dir="dist" includes="*.jar"/>
<zipgroupfileset dir="dist/lib" includes="*.jar"/>
<manifest><attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main.class}"/></manifest>
</jar>
<zip destfile="${store.jar}"><zipfileset src="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar" excludes="META-INF/*.SF, META-INF/*.DSA, META-INF/*.RSA"/></zip>
<delete file="${store.dir}/temp_final.jar"/>
<delete dir="${store.dir}/lib"/>
</target>
<property name="build.output.dir" value="c:/asjava"/>
<property name="build.classes.dir" value="C:/Dir_Test_Tool/dist"/>
<property name="verisign.key.store" value="${build.output.dir}/.keystore"/>
<property name="verisign.key.storepass" value="asjava.com"/>
<property name="verisign.key.alias" value="asjava"/>
<property name="verisign.key.pass" value="asjava.com"/>
<target name="signjars">
<mkdir dir="${build.output.dir}"/>
<genkey alias="${verisign.key.alias}" verbose="true" storepass="${verisign.key.storepass}"
keypass="${verisign.key.pass}" validity="365" keystore="${verisign.key.store}">
<dname>
<param name="CN" value="AsJava.com Group"/>
<param name="OU" value="Jim"/>
<param name="O" value="AsJava.com"/>
<param name="C" value="US"/>
</dname>
</genkey>
<signjar jar="${build.classes.dir}/Test_Tool.jar"
signedjar="${build.output.dir}/Test_Tool.jar"
alias="${verisign.key.alias}"
storepass="${verisign.key.storepass}"
keystore="${verisign.key.store}"
keypass="${verisign.key.pass}"/>
</target>
</project>
But the strange thing is : now it copies all the compiled directories under src into dist, if I delete them the result big jar won't run, I don't know ant good enough to correctly combine the above 3 steps into one, and don't know Netbeans enough to solve this problem, can someone help ?