resolved as follows: 1. add -verbose flag to last line of ant bash script ($JAVACMD -verbose . . . ). 2. this reveals that that missing classes aren't xml classes at all. rather, the missing classes are jakarta oro classes. 3. specifically, ant's optional.jar includes classes that depend upon jakarta oro package 4. download from http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/
- can't find xml classes null device
- null device