Old ant version download and general ant question- 1.5.3

[Srikrishna_Parthasarathy]

I am trying to download 1.5.3 for researching my build.xml file. But I
Couldn't find it.

 

 

http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/source/ 

 

I am trying to do a build  with  ant and weblogic ant tasks for building
a webservice. If I have the weblogic.jar , webservices.jar in the
ANT_HOME /lib  directory I don't need to do

 

<path id="base.path">

      

      <fileset dir="${ANT_HOME}/lib">

        <include name="**/*.jar"/>

      </fileset>

         </path>

 

in my build.xml and if I don't have weblogic.jar and webservice.jar in
the ANT_HOME/lib and have those jar in a separate lib directory , I do
the following 

 

 

 <path id="classpath.server">

        <pathelement location="lib/weblogic.jar"/>

         <pathelement location="lib/webservices.jar"/>

          <pathelement location="lib/ejbgen.jar"/>

         <pathelement location="lib/xmlx.jar"/>

    </path>

 

I get

 

 [weblogic.utils.compiler.ToolFailureException: [J2EE:160121]Errors
encountered w

hile compiling module 'C:\testwebservice\dist\OMSQueueEngine.jar':

 

Compiler failed executable.exec

 - with nested exception:

[

Compiler failed executable.exec

]]

        at weblogic.appc.compileInput(appc.java:515)

        at weblogic.appc.runBody(appc.java:184)

        at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:192)

        at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:147)

        at weblogic.appc.main(appc.java:1030)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.

java:39)

        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces

 

 

why is that ?