Like many programmers, I pride myself in no wasting other programmer's time by always making a best effort to find my own answers. BUT, I have just spend almost the entire Forth of July trying to find out why this VERY BASIC ant project fails. The problem is that ant cannot find the j2ee.jar extension delivered in the Java EE 5 (i.e. not part of the core API). I've tried absolutely everything after hours and hours of exhaustive Internet research. Many, many times it appeared I found the answer, but it would not work.
So, here I am. Your help would be greatly appreciated. HERE IS THE ANT CODE. NOTHING FOLLOWS; PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP AND HAVE SOME IDEA. I CANNOT LIST EVERYTHING I HAVE TRIED, BUT BELIEVE ME I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING I COULD FIND WHILE RESEARCHING THE PROBLEM ON THE INTERNET. I EVEN WOULD BE GREATFUL FOR SOME IDEA HOW TO PRINT THE CLASSPATH THE java TASK IS USING. I FOUND MANY WAYS TO DO THIS, BUT NONE, NONE OF THEM WORKED FOR ME. THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY UGLY DAY, AND ON TOP OF IT I READ SOME REALLY DISTURBING REPLIES FROM THE DEVELOPER'S AT ANT, REPLIES TO OTHER PEOPLE HAVING SIMILAR PROBLEMS. MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project name="TestHttpServlet" basedir="." default="run"> <!-- property names for directories --> <property name="src.dir" value="src"/> <property name="build.dir" value="build"/> <property name="classes.dir" value="${build.dir}/classes"/> <property name="jar.dir" value="${build.dir}/jar"/> <!-- property name for the Main-Class in a JAR manifest --> <property name="main-class" value="TestHttpServlet"/> <!-- AS Home --> <property name="appserver-home" value="c:SunAppServer"/> <!-- CLEAN --> <target name="clean" description="Delete all generated files"> <delete dir="${build.dir}" failonerror="false" /> </target> <!-- COMPILE --> <target name="compile" depends="clean" description="Compiles all .java files in the src directory" > <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/> <javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${classes.dir}" compiler="javac1.5"/> </target> <!-- COPY RESOURCES --> <target name="copy" depends="compile" description="Copies resource files in the src directory to the classes directory in preparation for archiving" > <copy todir="${classes.dir}"> <fileset dir="${src.dir}" excludes="**/*.java"/> </copy> </target> <!-- ARCHIVE --> <target name="jar" depends="copy" description="archive the .class files and other resources found in the src directory, and create the manifest file" > <mkdir dir="${jar.dir}"/> <jar destfile="${jar.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" basedir="build/classes"> <manifest> <attribute name="Main-Class" value="${main-class}"/> </manifest> </jar> </target> <!-- TEST --> <!-- NOTE: fork="true" MUST BE used when executing a .jar file --> <target name="run" depends="jar" description="Executes main(String[] args) to test build" > <java jar="${jar.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar" fork="true"> <classpath> <pathelement location="${appserver.home}/lib/j2ee.jar"/> </classpath> </java> </target> </project> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]