You don't need to add any dependency for cactus. This is handled by the
Cactus plugin itself.

Maybe you can have a look at the sample application in
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/maven/src/plugins-build/cactus/sample/

Thanks
-Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Vollmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 30 May 2003 17:53
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: Silly newbie question
> 
> Brian,
> 
> 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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