Moving assets from Jenkins to a ColdFusion server with Ant

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Ant ColdFusion jenkins

In down time, I am working on setting up Jenkins at work. I have Jenkins, Git, and Ant playing nice. The next step was figuring out how to move the files to our ColdFusion server. My first inclination was to point the Jenkin's job workspace to the webroot. I asked on twitter @marcesher about that. His reply was very helpful. So I figured the second easiest would be to create a shared drive and use ant to copy the files from the Jenkin job's workspace. This seems to work fine. I also created a clean target to reset the web root before copying over the application files.

COLDFUSION 

<!--
	=================================
		Target: package
		Generates the zip archive
	=================================
-->
<target name="package" depends="clean" description="--> packages the appropriate files into the deployment-ready zip file. use this for testing; otherwise, use publish">
	<copy todir="${webroot}" >  
		<fileset dir="${jenkins_workspace}" includes="**"/>  
	</copy>
</target>
<!--
	=================================
		Target: clean
		Cleans up un-needed files
	=================================
-->
<target name="clean" depends="init">
	<delete dir="${webroot}">
		<exclude name="CFIDE/"/>
		<exclude name="WEB-INF/"/>
		<exclude name="META-INF/"/>
		<exclude name="snapshots/"/>
		<exclude name=".settings/"/>
	</delete>
</target>

My next step is to get a compile check working in the ant script for my first test.