Starting and stopping selenium server through ant

Here is the way to do it.

Start selenium hub:

<target name="startServerhub">
        <echo>Starting Selenium Server...</echo>
        <java jar="${lib.dir}/selenium-server-standalone.jar" fork="true" spawn="true">
            <arg line="-port ${selenium.port} -trustAllSSLcertificates"/>
            <arg line="-log log.txt"/>   
            <arg value="-role"/>
            <arg value="hub"/>
        </java>
    </target>

Start selenium RC:

<target name="startServerRC" depends="startServerhub">
        <echo>Starting Selenium Server...</echo>
        <java jar="${lib.dir}/selenium-server-standalone.jar" fork="true" spawn="true">
            <arg line="-port 5555"/>
            <arg line="-log log.txt"/>   
            <arg line="-firefoxProfileTemplate"/>
            <arg value="${lib.dir}/ff_profile"/>
            <arg line="-userExtensions"/>
                <arg value="${lib.dir}/user-extensions.js"/>
            <arg line="-role node"/>
            <arg line="-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register "/>
            <!--<arg line="-maxSession 10"/>
            <arg line="-maxInstances=10"/>-->
        </java>
    </target>


Now ,save the targets in the file build.xml .navigate to the folder through cmd prompt and call



 ant startServerRC

which will internally call startServerhub,since startServerRC depends on startServerhub.



Stop selenium :

<target name="stop-selenium" description="stop selenium server">
        <echo>Stopping selenium server</echo>
        <get taskname="selenium-shutdown" dest="result.txt" ignoreerrors="true"
             src="http://localhost:${selenium.port}/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer"/>
    </target>


To stop selenium, call  : ant stop-selenium.