Mark Arnold wrote:
> When I try to execute my task, ant is giving me a ClassNotFoundException saying that
>com.mine.myOwnSpecialTask does not exist.
> The jar file is fine however.
>
> Copying mySpecial.jar into %ANT_HOME%/lib did not help either. After some hours I
>finally found that copying all the 3 jar files
> (optional.jar was already there anyway, but junit.jar was not there yet) into
>%ANT_HOME%/lib as well finally made it work.
>
> So 2 questions:
> 1. Why do I have to copy the jars into %ANT_HOME%/lib if I already specify them in
>the classpath tag for the taskdef?
Does your task have any other external dependencies besides those three
JAR files? If so, you need to specify those in the <classpath> as well.
> 2. Why does ant tell me it can not find myOwnSpecialTask in mySpecial.jar if the
>problem is really the junit.jar and some of the
> classes in there which I inherit myOwnSpecialTask from?
If it can't load your task (possibly because of a missing dependency)
then you can see this error.
> Is this problem a bug in ant or is the classpath tag within the taskdef not meant to
>be used for what I think it is?
Its just the nature of the classloader beast, I believe.
Erik
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