I figured out what was going on. You were correct it was the classloaders. I was running the tasks as class files that I was including at run time in my script.
I put the offending code into a jar and put it into my ant/lib directory and everything worked perfectly. Don -----Original Message----- From: Keith Hatton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:52 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Tasks and TaskContainer >>This makes absolutely no sense what so ever, however this is how I worked around the ClassCastException: I ended up using reflection. I am in severe doubt of my sanity and skills as a programmer. << All of the above could be explained with the word "classloaders". Without knowing the detail, it sounds as if your task is loaded by a different classloader to the one that loaded the child task, so the class you are trying to cast to is not the same class, hence the ClassCastException, and also hence why reflection works. Looking into this further will probably not improve your sanity in the short-term :) Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
