DO NOT REPLY [Bug 22888] New: - using regex package when optional.jar is not on classpath

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using regex package when optional.jar is not on classpath

           Summary: using regex package when optional.jar is not on
                    classpath
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.5.4
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Optional Tasks
        AssignedTo: dev@ant.apache.org
        ReportedBy: iebgener@yahoo.com


I think I have found a packaging problem with optional.jar

Since I have removed optional.jar from the system classpath, everything works OK
except for replaceregexp; I am always getting 'No supported regular expression
matcher found' even tought I am using Java 1.4.

Looking into the code, I have found that RegexpMatcherFactory is in ant.jar but
the different implementations are in optional.jar. How the factory can
instianciate a class in optional.jar if it is in a different classloader ? is
this a packaging bug ? why not put the complete package
org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp/** into optional.jar ?

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