All,
I recognize that this may be an elementary question but I'm stuck with what I know is a Classpath problem and I can't figure out how to fix it. I'm trying to learn ant and I have some tutorials but they won't build. The error says: BUILD FAILED java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1223) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1062) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:673) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:188) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:196) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55) Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:1618) at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:1930) at java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1027) at org.apache.tools.ant.IntrospectionHelper.<init>(IntrospectionHelper.java:346 ) at org.apache.tools.ant.IntrospectionHelper.getHelper(IntrospectionHelper.java: 437) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.handleChildren(UnknownElement.java:318) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.configure(UnknownElement.java:182) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.maybeConfigure(UnknownElement.java:158) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:363) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1214) So what in there is the missing element and what do I need to get in the Classpath? Many thanks. Shane Furlong