Ant Configuration

Create buid.xml, paste below and place the file in project root folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Springmvc" basedir="." default="make-war">
<property name="src.dir" value="src"/>
<property name="webcontent.dir" value="WebContent/"/>
<property name="lib.dir" value="WebContent/WEB-INF/lib"/>
<property name="build.dir" value="build"/>
<property name="web.dir" value="${webcontent.dir}"/>

<property name="classes.dir" value="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/classes"/>

<property name="dist.dir" value="dist"/>

<path id="classpath">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar"/>
</path>
<target name="clean">
<delete verbose="on" dir="${build.dir}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile">
<copy todir="${web.dir}" >
<fileset dir="${webcontent.dir}"/>
</copy>
<mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
<javac source="1.5" target="1.5" srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}" classpathref="classpath"/>
</target>
<target name="make-war" depends="clean,compile">
</target>
</project>