This happens because ant does not include the bsf jar in its distrib (its an optional task).
Add the bsf jar to ant/lib. You'll prob also need commons-logging.jar. If anyone knows of a better way than just adding to the ant/lib, I'd love to know it. http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#librarydependencies ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Chikwaya Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Webtest] Problem with <scriptStep> Error invoking script: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.bsf.engines.javascript.JavaScriptEngine Hi, I am having problems running virtually and webtests using <scriptStep> regardless of what the language is. I have tried setting the language to groovy, javascript, python, and java and neither on of them work. It appears that this has been a problem since 2006 and still has not been fixed. The exception i receive is the following: Error invoking script: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.bsf.engines.javascript.JavaScriptEngine The stack trace is as follows: Error invoking script: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.bsf.engines.javascript.JavaScriptEngine, Step: ScriptStep at /home/chiks/workspace/g-projects-trunk/webtest/gallupOnlineTest/tests/clientCustomizations/hbc.xml:19: with (language="javascript", script=" var x=document.getHtmlElementsByTagName('span'); var y=x[0]; while (y.innerHTML =='Please wait while your request is being processed.'){ setTimeout(getValues(),5000); } function getValues(){ x=document.getHtmlElementsByTagName('span'); y=x[0]; } ", taskName="scriptStep") at com.canoo.webtest.extension.ScriptStep.doExecute(ScriptStep.java:76) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.execute(Step.java:101) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.AbstractStepContainer.executeContainedStep(AbstractStepContainer.java:72) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.AbstractStepContainer.executeContainedSteps(AbstractStepContainer.java:80) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.control.TimedGroupStep.doExecute(TimedGroupStep.java:55) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.execute(Step.java:101) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestStepSequence.executeSteps(TestStepSequence.java:43) at com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestStepSequence.doExecute(TestStepSequence.java:31) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.execute(Step.java:101) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask.execute(WebtestTask.java:206) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1329) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.SingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(SingleCheckExecutor.java:38) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseSingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseSingleCheckExecutor.java:30) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1181) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Ant.execute(Ant.java:416) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1329) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.SingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(SingleCheckExecutor.java:38) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseSingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseSingleCheckExecutor.java:30) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1181) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Ant.execute(Ant.java:416) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:105) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1329) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1298) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseDefaultExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseDefaultExecutor.java:32) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1181) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:423) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:137) org.apache.bsf.engines.javascript.JavaScriptEngine Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve Chikwaya.

