java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/launch/AntMain
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         Key: XALANJ-1987
         URL: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-1987
     Project: XalanJ2
        Type: Bug
  Components: Xalan  
 Environment: some tomcat versions
    Reporter: Philippe Vijghen


The Xalan implementation of 
org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck.checkEnvironment leads to unexpected 
exception when there is an ant present that do not implement the AntMain method 
anymore (which is the case with the ant embedded in various tomcat 4 versions).

One workaround is to remove the ant.jar file in the lib directory of tomcat, 
but then tomcat fails to compile JSP files.

A better solution would be to adapt the ant check of xalan in order to make 
sure that no exception is launched if the version of ant does not support the 
org/apache/tools/ant/launch/AntMain (it is btw a pity that the backward 
compatibility of that AntMain was broken by ant.jar)


java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/launch/AntMain
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.findClass(StandardClassLoader.java:621)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:958)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:857)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:941)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(StandardClassLoader.java:857)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1429)
at 
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1289)
at 
org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck.classForName(EnvironmentCheck.java:1202)
at 
org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck.checkAntVersion(EnvironmentCheck.java:1016)
at 
org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck.getEnvironmentHash(EnvironmentCheck.java:268)
at 
org.apache.xalan.xslt.EnvironmentCheck.checkEnvironment(EnvironmentCheck.java:211)

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