Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello,

I need some guidance to create an 'EAR' file using ANT.
I am using this as a test purpose.

1)I have created a context called greeting under Tomcat 4.1
Structure is :

 greeting
   src
   WEB-INF
        classes

2.) I have installed ANT and have set the flwg variables:

set ANT_HOME=C:\Ant\apache-ant-1.6.2
set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.3.1_02
set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

3) I put a 'build.xml' file in the greeting directory:

  <project name="simpleCompile" default="deploy" basedir=".">

   <target name="init">
      <property name="sourceDir" value="src"/ >
      <property name="outputDir" value="classes" />
      <property name="deployProperties" value="/classes" />
   </target>

   <target name="clean" depends="init">
      <deltree dir="${outputDir}" />
   </target>

   <target name="prepare" depends="clean">
      <mkdir dir="${outputDir}" />
   </target>

   <target name="compile" depends="prepare">
     <javac srcdir="${sourceDir}" destdir="${outputDir}" />
   </target>

   <target name="deploy" depends="compile,init">
     <copyfile src="server.properties" dest="${deployProperties}"/>
   </target>
</project>
   

4. Then I go to directory :

     
   C:\Jakarta4.1\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31\webapps\greeting>
   

and run Ant by saying:

C:\Jakarta4.1\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31\webapps\greeting>ant

I get the flwg error:

   C:\Jakarta4.1\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31\webapps\greeting>ant
   Buildfile: build.xml

   BUILD FAILED
   C:\Jakarta4.1\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31\webapps\greeting\build.xml:4: Element type "
   property" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".

   Total time: 0 seconds
   

My question is:

1.What is leading to the above error?
2.Am I right in using the above ways to create an EAR file?