I suspect the problem isn't your PATH, but your CLASSPATH. You'll need to
make sure this includes:
${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar
(Assuming that you've already set JAVA_HOME).
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Prakash A <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm very new Jenkins (even to CI tools). I have a problem in running
> ANT target from Jenkins. Let me clarify the question.
>
> I've my jenkins installed in CentOS using native method (YUM repo).
> I've also installed JDK, Ant. I did configured the path of those
> things in Jenkins -> Manage Jenkins -> Configure System.
>
> Then created a new Job to build product. In the job, subversion access
> information as well as ant target to be run in the build step were
> configured.
>
> When running the job, im able to connect to SVN and download the
> files. When trying to run the ant target, i got the following error
> and build the failed.
>
> [workspace] $ /usr/ant/apache-ant-1.8.3/bin/ant web
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object
> Build step 'Invoke Ant' marked build as failure
> Finished: FAILURE
>
> Based on my understanding, the error is that the appropriate JDK bin
> path was not configured properly in PATH environment variable. Is my
> assumption rite??
>
> I also tried to set the PATH variable in two places. 1. Jenkins ->
> Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Global Properties by having
> 'PATH' in the name and '/usr/java/home/bin' (Yes, Sun JDK was
> installed in that path) as the value. 2. Jenkins -> Job1 ->
> configuration -> Invoke Ant -> Advanced -> Properties as 'PATH=/usr/
> java/home/bin'.
>
> Im lost here. Please let me know, how i can change the PATH variable.
>
> Thanks,
> Prakash.A
