I haven't run Cactus but typically you need to tell Maven what JARs you want even for activities unrelated to simple compilation. You mentioned that you tried to add a <dependency> for Cactus but it didn't download. You should probably look into why that is happening. If you can't get that to work, you can at least "short-circuit" the JAR download and simply put the Cactus JAR in your Maven repository. BTW, another handy trick with Maven is to run it with the '-X' option which will print out in great detail exactly what it is executing and, more importantly perhaps, the CLASSPATH it is using.
Hope this helps.
--Alex
brian janaszek wrote:
Hi
Just getting starting with Maven (as a replacement for Ant) and I'm attempting to use the Cactus plugin, but without much success. My Cactus tests aren't compiling (the Cactus imports can't be found), but if I look in Maven's repository, there are the Cactus jars. I don't have a dependency entry in my project.xml file (I looked at several Jakarta project files--like the Turbine project.xml--and they did not reference cactus there). I've also attempted to add a reference to cactus in the dependency list, but each time Maven can't download the jar file. What am I missing?
TIA bmj
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