Try changing the name of the taskdef to be all lowercase, it
seems like the case of the task definition and actual usage of
the task must match ...
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Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:29 PM
Subject: RE: Setting classpath for Taskdef
> OK.
>
> If I remove optional.jar from %ANT_HOME%\lib but define it in the MimeMail
> taskdef along with J2ee.jar,
> then Ant can't find the MimeMail task.
>
> ie
>
> <taskdef name="mimeMail"
> classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.MimeMail">
> <classpath>
> <pathelement location="${project}/lib/j2ee/j2ee.jar"/>
> <pathelement location="${project}/tools/ant/lib/optional.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> </taskdef>
>
> Gives
>
> D:\source\main\buildScripts\NightlyBuild.xml:44: taskdef class
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.net.MimeMail cannot be found
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Definer.addDefinition(Definer.java:176)
> at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Definer.execute(Definer.java:114)
>
> etc
>
> But if I define the taskdef for MimeMail as above and don't remove
> optional.jar from %ANT_HOME%\lib then I get
>
>
> D:\source\main\buildScripts\NightlyBuild.xml:172: Could not create task of
> type: mimeMail due to java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Address
> at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.createTask(Project.java:509)
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.makeTask(UnknownElement.java:148)
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.maybeConfigure(UnknownElement.java:83)
> at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:216)
>
>
> So it wuld seem that Ant definitely requires the optional.jar in its
> classpath when executed, and can't pick it up from the taskdef classpath
> attribute.
>
> It also seems that Ant requires that any libraries that are needed by an
> optional task to also be included in Ant's classpath.
> Ie these classes can't be specified via the classpath attribute of
taskdef.
>
> So either I'm doing something totally wrong, or the classpath attribute
> doesn't appear to function.
>
> William
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, 10 December 2001 12:55
> > To: Ant Users List
> > Subject: Re: Setting classpath for Taskdef
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 4:32 PM
> > Subject: RE: Setting classpath for Taskdef
> >
> >
> > > Thanks Eric,
> > >
> > > optional.jar is already in %ANT_HOME%\lib and it finds it OK.
> > > It's just not finding j2ee.jar
> >
> > That is because the task in optional.jar is in a different
> > classloader from
> > the j2ee jar.
> >
> > > If I explicitly add j2ee.jar to the classpath when I invoke Ant then
> > > everything works OK.
> > > But that is not an optimal solution.
> >
> > It is all you get unless you pull optional.jar from ant\lib
> > and include it
> > in the classpath you spec for MimeMail.
> >
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