Split Install Deployment

Introduction

Below is outlined "simple embedding" concepts, however full embedding and split-installing are really recommended. This provides fully versioned self-contained bundles of both the application deployment bundle and the webserver deployment bundle. Read the docs on that technique for more advantages. This technique fully explained along with a ready-to-use ant build script is available at:

Alternative Ant Build Script for Fully Embedded and Split Install Bundles

The Simple Way

One simple change to your build.xml: Simply add the wsDestDir property to the woapplication (or woframework in the case of a framework project) task in your project's build.xml as shown below. As stated by the documentation, presence of that parameter triggers a split install and thus creates an additional woa bundle for the webserver resources.

<woapplication name="${project.name}"  stdFrameworks="false"
                                           destDir="${dest.dir}"
                                           customInfoPListContent="${customInfoPListContent}"
                                           principalClass="${principalClass}"
                                           webXML="${webXML}"
                                           webXML_CustomContent="${webXML_CustomContent}"
                                           wsDestDir="/Library/WebServer/Documents"> 

A Better Way

So that both Install works and ant build into project dist (right-click build.xml -> Run As/Ant Build) provides a split install, make the following 4 1-line changes to your Application build.xml file as shown in snippet below:

setProps target : add wsinstall.dir property
 init.install target : add wsdest.dir property
 init.build target : add wsdest.dir property
 woapplication task : add wsDestDir property