Glen, thanks for the suggestion on the search terms. After reading some search hits, I copied all the jars in TOMCAT_HOME\common\lib to ANT_HOME\lib and everything works now.
--- Glen Mazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olinga K. Abbott wrote: > > > Glen, thanks for responding. I placed both the property and path element > > references to > servlet-api > > at the beginning of their respective sections, and defined jdk.javac.path. > > I still get the > same > > error. > > > > Any ideas on why build.xml provided by the Tomcat website doesn't work? > > > >>>BUILD FAILED > >>>E:\workspace\progsoftware\trunk\source\jasper\build.xml:5: taskdef A class > >>>needed by class > >>>org.apache.jasper.JspC cannot be found: javax/servlet/ServletException > >>> > > Well, I just did a Google search on "taskdef A class needed by class" > (with the quotes, of course) and got 239 hits. You'll probably find > your answer somewhere in there. > > Glen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]