optional.jar problem

[David Scassa <ds...@journee.com>]

Hey Folks,

I have successfully completed several ant builds so far, and I've nearly
memorized the manual so I felt for a while that I was at least at the
intermediate user level for ant. This particular problem that I am having
now will probably have the ant user community believing otherwise. :)

I have my ant directory on drive K:\ant, K: is a UNC mapped drive to of one
of my fileservers. I chose to install ant there because I wanted it
available to all of our developers in a common area thus, it would be easily
accessable.

I am running Win2K Pro, and am setting my environment variables to the
following:

MY_PROJECT=d:\ejbtest
ANT_HOME=K:\ant
JAVA_HOME=K:\IBMJDK122
SET CLASSPATH=%MYPROJECT%\lib\blah.jar;%ANT_HOME%\lib\optional.jar etc.**

**I have not set my classpath via a property file as of yet; this is part of
the problem.

Everything that does not include a task in the optional.jar runs fine.

Here is my problem:

ERROR:
D:\ejbtemp\build.xml:8: Could not create task of type: classpath. Common
solutio
ns are to use taskdef to declare your task, or, if this is an optional task,
to
put the optional.jar in the lib directory of your ant installation
(ANT_HOME).

CODE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE:

<target name="setclass">
	<classpath>	
		<propertyfile file="classpath.properties">
			<pathelement path="${classpath}"/>
		</propertyfile>
	</classpath>
		<echo message="Classpath=${classpath}"/>
	</target>

My classpath.properties file contains the following:

#Wed May 09 10:17:17 CDT 2001
main.classpath=1
classpath=d:\context\src;d:\context\lib\xml4j.jar;k:\ant;k:\ant\bin;k:\ant\l
ib;d
:\context\lib\jaxp.jar;d:\context\lib\ujc.jar;d:\context\lib\ejs.jar;d:\cont
ext\
lib\log4j.jar;d:\context\lib\admin.jar;d:\context\lib\crimson.jar;d:\context
\lib
\deployTool.jar;d:\context\lib\ivbjfaceall.jar;d:\context\lib\jms.jar;d:\con
text
\lib\log4j.jar;d:\context\lib\jetace.jar;d:\context\lib\junit.jar;d:\context
\web
apps\context\WEB-INF\lib\infobus.jar;d:\context\webapps\context\WEB-INF\lib\
stru
ts.jar;d:\context\lib\servlet.jar;d:\context\lib\xerces.jar;d:\context\lib\x
alan
.jar;k:\ant\lib\optional.jar


SO... 

I checked the classpath that I had set and made sure that I added
K:\ant\lib\optional.jar.  (cmd shell> set
classpath=%classpath%;%ant_home%\lib\optional.jar) To no effect.

SO... 

I added k:\ant\lib\optional.jar to {cmd shell> set
ant_home=%ant_home%;%ant_home%\lib\optional.jar and I get this error:

"k:\ant\lib\optional.jara==a was unexpected at this time."

So, I guess I'm a little stumped. I thought that I had a corrupt version of
optional.jar, so I downloaded the latest version (1.3) and I still have this
problem. 

What are the possible issues that would cause ant to literally ignore the
optional.jar?

-David




 

Re: optional.jar problem

[Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>]

David,

Try just reading in your classpath.properties file using:

<property file="classpath.properties"/>

(assuming the file lives in the base directory; otherwise, use a fuller
path to point to the file) -- in other words, get rid of all the
<classpath> and <pathelement> stuff.  Then just reference the ${classpath}
property wherever you need it.

Diane

--- David Scassa <ds...@journee.com> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I have successfully completed several ant builds so far, and I've nearly
> memorized the manual so I felt for a while that I was at least at the
> intermediate user level for ant. This particular problem that I am
> having
> now will probably have the ant user community believing otherwise. :)
> 
> I have my ant directory on drive K:\ant, K: is a UNC mapped drive to of
> one
> of my fileservers. I chose to install ant there because I wanted it
> available to all of our developers in a common area thus, it would be
> easily
> accessable.
> 
> I am running Win2K Pro, and am setting my environment variables to the
> following:
> 
> MY_PROJECT=d:\ejbtest
> ANT_HOME=K:\ant
> JAVA_HOME=K:\IBMJDK122
> SET CLASSPATH=%MYPROJECT%\lib\blah.jar;%ANT_HOME%\lib\optional.jar
> etc.**
> 
> **I have not set my classpath via a property file as of yet; this is
> part of
> the problem.
> 
> Everything that does not include a task in the optional.jar runs fine.
> 
> Here is my problem:
> 
> ERROR:
> D:\ejbtemp\build.xml:8: Could not create task of type: classpath. Common
> solutio
> ns are to use taskdef to declare your task, or, if this is an optional
> task,
> to
> put the optional.jar in the lib directory of your ant installation
> (ANT_HOME).
> 
> CODE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE:
> 
> <target name="setclass">
> 	<classpath>	
> 		<propertyfile file="classpath.properties">
> 			<pathelement path="${classpath}"/>
> 		</propertyfile>
> 	</classpath>
> 		<echo message="Classpath=${classpath}"/>
> 	</target>
> 
> My classpath.properties file contains the following:
> 
> #Wed May 09 10:17:17 CDT 2001
> main.classpath=1
>
classpath=d:\context\src;d:\context\lib\xml4j.jar;k:\ant;k:\ant\bin;k:\ant\l
> ib;d
>
:\context\lib\jaxp.jar;d:\context\lib\ujc.jar;d:\context\lib\ejs.jar;d:\cont
> ext\
>
lib\log4j.jar;d:\context\lib\admin.jar;d:\context\lib\crimson.jar;d:\context
> \lib
>
\deployTool.jar;d:\context\lib\ivbjfaceall.jar;d:\context\lib\jms.jar;d:\con
> text
>
\lib\log4j.jar;d:\context\lib\jetace.jar;d:\context\lib\junit.jar;d:\context
> \web
>
apps\context\WEB-INF\lib\infobus.jar;d:\context\webapps\context\WEB-INF\lib\
> stru
>
ts.jar;d:\context\lib\servlet.jar;d:\context\lib\xerces.jar;d:\context\lib\x
> alan
> .jar;k:\ant\lib\optional.jar
> 
> 
> SO... 
> 
> I checked the classpath that I had set and made sure that I added
> K:\ant\lib\optional.jar.  (cmd shell> set
> classpath=%classpath%;%ant_home%\lib\optional.jar) To no effect.
> 
> SO... 
> 
> I added k:\ant\lib\optional.jar to {cmd shell> set
> ant_home=%ant_home%;%ant_home%\lib\optional.jar and I get this error:
> 
> "k:\ant\lib\optional.jara==a was unexpected at this time."
> 
> So, I guess I'm a little stumped. I thought that I had a corrupt version
> of
> optional.jar, so I downloaded the latest version (1.3) and I still have
> this
> problem. 
> 
> What are the possible issues that would cause ant to literally ignore
> the
> optional.jar?
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 


=====
(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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