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I need help building my 1st Tomcat application.
My system is a Windows XP PC. My version of Tomcat is 5.5.8.
I have tomcat installed under the directory C:\Tomcat5.5
Once at the test page, I also ran some of the JSP examples to verify that everything was working correctly.
My problem is that I can't build an application successfully. I have searched the Tomcat documentation and several mailing list archives, but I have not found any documentation that states, "This is how to build a Tomcat application". I have organized my source code as described/recommended in the Tomcat documentation.
I did have some success with Tomcat 5.0.16 under Linux Redhat9 a year ago, and as I recall, you compiled your application from the command line using the "Ant" utility. So I changed my current directory to the toplevel of my project and issued the command "ant compile". I received the following error message :
BUILD FAILED
C:\barry\myproject\build.xml:146: taskdef class org.apache.cataline.ant.DeployTask cannot be found
Line 146 of my build.xml file is as follows :
<taskdef name="deploy" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask"/>
I searched the JAR files under my Tomcat installation and found that the JAR file located at
C:\Tomcat5.5\server\lib\catalina-ant.jar conatins the "missing" class.
According to the Tomcat documentation that I read, JAR files placed under $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
are available both to web applications and internal Tomcat code. So I copied the JAR file under that directory and once again attempted to build my project/application. However, I received the same error message
What do I need to do in order to build/compile my Tomcat5 project ? Is there a "How to build a Tomcat5 Project" document ?
Please help a confused rookie.
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