How can I include data text files in a jar using Ant?

Question

In my src folder there is another folder called data which contains files data1.txt and data2.txt. The application loads a graph from these files in the initialization, so I want to include these files in my final jar. I use Ant to produce the jar file.

Answer 1

Example from http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/jar.html :

  <jar destfile="${dist}/lib/app.jar">
    <fileset dir="${build}/classes"/>
    <fileset dir="${src}/resources"/>
  </jar>

So basically you would want to include the data-files in the same way as "resources" are included above.

From the documentation of the <jar> task:

It is possible to refine the set of files that are being jarred. This can be done with the includes, includesfile, excludes, excludesfile and defaultexcludes attributes.

Answer 2

Copy the files to your classes directory, where they will be included into the jar.

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<target name="copyHibernateXml">
    <copy todir="classes">
        <fileset dir="${basedir}/${sourceDir}" includes="*.xml,*.csv"/>
    </copy>
</target>