Eclipse Plugin : Programatically Export/Create/Build WAR file

import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent; 

import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionException; 

import org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.archive.operations.WebComponentExportDataModelProvider; 

import org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.web.datamodel.properties.IWebComponentExportDataModelProperties; 

import org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.datamodel.DataModelFactory; 

import org.eclipse.wst.common.frameworks.datamodel.IDataModel; 

public class SomeClass{

/**

*

* @param projectName – Name of the web project

* @param destinationPath – Destination path to create the war (eg: C:\temp\webapp.war)

*/

public void export(String projectName, String destinationPath) throws ExecutionException {

IDataModel model = DataModelFactory.createDataModel(new WebComponentExportDataModelProvider());

model.setProperty(IWebComponentExportDataModelProperties.PROJECT_NAME,projectName);

model.setProperty(IWebComponentExportDataModelProperties.ARCHIVE_DESTINATION, destinationPath);

model.getDefaultOperation().execute( null, null );

}

}
Many thanx to http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/j2ee/scenarios/WTPApis.html

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