Do you need to any specific to use sql task in ant 1.6.5? Is there a work around ?
srikrishna C:\projects\springapp>ant -verbose createTables Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005 Buildfile: build.xml Detected Java version: 1.5 in: C:\bea92\jdk150_10\jre Detected OS: Windows XP parsing buildfile C:\projects\springapp\build.xml with URI = file:///C:/projects /springapp/build.xml Project base dir set to: C:\projects\springapp [property] Loading C:\projects\springapp\build.properties Build sequence for target(s) `createTables' is [createTables] Complete build sequence is [createTables, undeploy, loadData, build, deploy, sta rt, dropTables, printData, install, stop, reload, clean, list, usage, clearData, junit, deploywar, ] createTables: [echo] CREATE TABLES USING: org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver jdbc:hsqldb:db/test [sql] connecting to jdbc:hsqldb:db/test [sql] Loading org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver using AntClassLoader with classpath C :\projects\springapp\war\WEB-INF\lib\commons-logging.jar;C:\projects\spr ingapp\w ar\WEB-INF\lib\hsqldb.jar;C:\projects\springapp\war\WEB-INF\lib\jstl.jar ;C:\proj ects\springapp\war\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.14.jar;C:\projects\springapp\wa r\WEB-IN F\lib\spring.jar;C:\projects\springapp\war\WEB-INF\lib\standard.jar;C:\T omcat 6. 0\lib\servlet-api.jar;C:\projects\springapp\war\WEB-INF\classes BUILD FAILED C:\projects\springapp\build.xml:114: Class Not Found: JDBC driver org.hsqldb.jdb cDriver could not be loaded at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.JDBCTask.getDriver(JDBCTask.java:366) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.JDBCTask.getConnection(JDBCTask.java:30 4) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.SQLExec.execute(SQLExec.java:346) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) 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.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216)