Hey, everyone, thank you for you help. I stick with the solution from Gawor ( http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0502_gawor/0502_gawor.html ):
File buildFile = new File("build.xml"); Project p = new Project(); p.setUserProperty("ant.file", buildFile.getAbsolutePath()); p.init(); ProjectHelper helper = ProjectHelper.getProjectHelper(); p.addReference("ant.projectHelper", helper); helper.parse(p, buildFile); p.executeTarget(p.getDefaultTarget()); It seems pretty simple, but when it tries to run the "p.init();" I get the following error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/launch/AntMain at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.initProperties(Project.java:308) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.init(Project.java:295) at testAnt.main(testAnt.java:14) THis line 14 refers to p.init(); Do you guys have any clues what it might be?? -- David Nemer Sent from: Kaiserslautern RP Germany. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Felix Dorner <fdor...@zed.com> wrote: > > Whoops > > > Maybe you look for something like this: > > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0502_gawor/0502_gawor.html > > Felix > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > >