Hello, thanks for the responses. I think I get an understanding to the whole matter :)
This morning I made a new fresh start: Deleted .magic In avalon/trunk made an ant clean Then: ant setup -> /home/tobias/.magic was created ant Going to avalon/trunk/planet/facilities/http/block ant The merlin.properties contains: merlin.repository = /home/tobias/.magic/main Now trying: cd trunk/planet/facilities/http merlin blocks/demo/target/deliverables/blocks/avalon-http-demo-SNAPSHOT.block -config blocks/demo/etc/config.xml -debug ----------------- output snip--------------------------------------------- [DEBUG ] (demo): including composite block: file:/home/tobias/.magic/main/avalon/http/blocks/avalon-http-server-SNAPSHOT.block [DEBUG ] (demo): installing: server [DEBUG ] (kernel.logger): adding category [demo.server] [DEBUG ] (kernel.logger): adding category [demo.server] [DEBUG ] (demo.server): creating child classloader for: [default-server] [DEBUG ] (demo.server.classloader): base: ${merlin.dir} ---- exception report ---------------------------------------------------------- Exception: org.apache.avalon.merlin.KernelException Message: Install failure: file:/home/tobias/usr/src/trunk/planet/facilities/http/blocks/demo/target/deliverables/blocks/avalon-http-demo-SNAPSHOT.block ---- cause --------------------------------------------------------------------- Exception: org.apache.avalon.composition.model.ModelException Message: Could not create classloader. ---- cause --------------------------------------------------------------------- Exception: org.apache.avalon.repository.RepositoryException Message: Unknown artifact: [artifact:jar:avalon/http/avalon-http-server#SNAPSHOT]. ---- stack trace --------------------------------------------------------------- org.apache.avalon.repository.RepositoryException: Unknown artifact: [artifact:jar:avalon/http/avalon-http-server#SNAPSHOT]. -------------------------- snap ----------------------------------------- Somehow I am missing the artifact-jar avalon/http/avalon-http-server#SNAPSHOT. I can't find it in the .magic/main tree, neither in any directory of the avalon/trunk-tree :( I am quite at a loss how to build this artifact. This seems not to be done if one executes ant from a top level position. Then I examine the output of the ant-runs I find a section that contains the output for http-server. But there only the avalon-http-server-SNAPSHOT.block is copied to .magic/main/avalon/http/blocks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ name: avalon-http-server ------------------------------------------------------------------------ init: prepare: standard.build: build: [x:block] creating plugin declaration package: test: install: [x:install] Copying 1 file to /home/tobias/.magic/main/avalon/http Tobias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]