I am using Ant 1.2 with JDK 1.3 under Windows 98. I read about the IllegalAccessError problem in the archives, but it didn't give me an adequate explanation. I have a public class, let's call it Public, with a static main which i use the java task to execute. In the constructor of this class I create an instance of another class who's constructor is protected, let's call this Protected. Both Public and Protected are in the same package, so Public should be able to create an instance of Protected. Alas, I cannot do so in Ant. I understand why Ant must use its own classloader, because I am specifying my own class path on the fly which consists of JAR files that are created in the build file. But I have created my own class loaders before and I have not run into this type of problem, this is perfectly legal stuff. Is this problematic because Ant must use reflection to call the static main method? I cannot use forking since I need standard input and I would prefer not to run an additional JVM anyway. This seems like pretty reasonable limitation. Am I missing something? -> richard hall
