The "Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework" book is accompanied by sample code. This code is ment to be deployed via "ANT". This deployment process should produce a "dist" directory which should contain a ".war" file.

However, with my infinite wisdom, I have not be able to produce such an outcome. I would assume there is still something wrong with the build file but i'm not sure.

Has anyone been successful in deploying these code examples? IF so, what the secret?