I'll remove the dependency again, but to satisfy my curiosity, if someone can maybe figure out why on this particular machine the junit task doesn't work I'd appreciate it.
The way I read the <junit> docs in the Ant manual http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/junit.html the junit task doesn't work unless you do the special setup mentioned in the notes. Probably, on your machine, you copied junit.jar into some master location in your classpath, long ago, and may have forgotten that you did this, but on these tinderbox machines their copy of Ant does not have a junit.jar installed in any special location (e.g., ANT_HOME/lib, JRE/lib/ext, etc.) thanks, bryan
