Cactus, Ant and Eclipse?

[Matthew Van Horn <ma...@yahoo.com>]

Does anyone know how to get Cactus's ant integration working under
eclipse 3.0?

I get the following error:
taskdef A class needed by class org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.CactusTask cannot be found: junit/framework/TestListener build.xml

Now, I know that the junit.jar is on the classpath, because I use it in
another part of the build.

If I put the classes in the ANT_HOME that Eclipse uses, then I start
down a road into classpath hell, where it seems to be looking for
xerces, and other xml-related jars.

Does anyone have a quick howto for this? I'm not usually stupid, but I
just can't seem to make this work today.

-- 
Matthew Van Horn <ma...@yahoo.com>

RE: [SOLVED?] Cactus, Ant and Eclipse?

[Matthew Van Horn <ma...@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 20:35, Vincent Massol wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Van Horn [mailto:matthew_van_horn@yahoo.com]
> > 
> > If I put the classes in the ANT_HOME that Eclipse uses, then I start
> > down a road into classpath hell, where it seems to be looking for
> > xerces, and other xml-related jars.
> 
> Cactus requires 5 jars. They are all described here:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/ant/index.html

In addition to 
    |   |- cactus.jar
    |   |- cactus-ant.jar
    |   |- commons-httpclient.jar
    |   |- commons-logging.jar
    |   |- junit.jar
    |   |- aspectjrt.jar

described on that page (which I had already tried), I also needed to put
xerces.jar, and xml-apis.jar on the Ant classpath as well. This is not
described in the documentation,and I am wondering why those jars were
not on my classpath already, since some of the other eclipse/ant stuff
probably uses them. It is probably an Eclipse specific thing.

At least the cactifywar task now seems to work, although the build file
editor is still giving me a warning about missing JUnit classes
(junit.framework.TestListener).

Thanks for the help, all the same.
-- 
Matthew Van Horn <ma...@yahoo.com>

RE: Cactus, Ant and Eclipse?

[Vincent Massol <vm...@pivolis.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Van Horn [mailto:matthew_van_horn@yahoo.com]
> Sent: dimanche 15 août 2004 08:24
> To: cactus-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Cactus, Ant and Eclipse?
> 
> Does anyone know how to get Cactus's ant integration working under
> eclipse 3.0?
> 
> I get the following error:
> taskdef A class needed by class
> org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.CactusTask cannot be found:
> junit/framework/TestListener build.xml
> 
> Now, I know that the junit.jar is on the classpath, because I use it in
> another part of the build.

There are several CP! It has to be in the Eclipse Ant CP. Go to
Windows|Preferences|Ant|Runtime. Under the "Classpath" tab, add it.

> 
> If I put the classes in the ANT_HOME that Eclipse uses, then I start
> down a road into classpath hell, where it seems to be looking for
> xerces, and other xml-related jars.

Cactus requires 5 jars. They are all described here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/ant/index.html

> 
> Does anyone have a quick howto for this? I'm not usually stupid, but I
> just can't seem to make this work today.
> 

Thanks
-Vincent