I know that Java 1.4 had a lot of bugs that had to be fixed -- hence the later versions of Java 1.4 like Java 1.4.2.
It could just be that you hit one of the Java 1.4 bugs. Can you upgrade to Java 1.4.2? Or, at least compile in Java 1.4.2 since the bytecode produced by Java 1.4.2 should be identical to Java 1.4 format? Java 1.4 was released in February 2002 and Java 1.4.2 was released in August of 2003 fixing many of the bugs in Java 1.4. Both are now obsolete and are no longer supported by Sun as of October 2008. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:19 AM, David Raich <d.ra...@att.net> wrote: > I do not think it is a simple classpath problem because the same physical > layout works on all my other machines, but under newer versions of Java. > > In every case, I am using Ant 1.7.1, and I copied ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar to > the $ANT_HOME/lib directory. The ant-contrib JAR appears in the ant > -diagnostics listing. And I am able to see net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml in > the JAR if I look at it with $JAVA_HOME/bin/jar tf. But for some reason > <taskdef> seems to be unable to find it on this one machine. > > > At 11:29 PM 5/26/2009, you wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> This doesnt look like a Java problem. >> >> This seems to be a classpath problem. >> The error says, that the whole antcontrib.jar could not be found. >> Antlib.xml is inside the antcontrib.jar and defines the tasks of >> antcontrib. >> >> The antcontrib.jar is probably not on the classpath of the Ant you are >> using in this case. >> >> Is antcontrib in the lib-dir of the Ant you are using? >> >> Greetings >> >> Jürgen >> >> >> >> -- >> Jürgen Knuplesch >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: David Raich [mailto:d.ra...@att.net] >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2009 02:51 >> An: Ant Users List >> Betreff: ant-contrib with Java 1.4? >> >> Thanks for your suggestion to use ant-contrib and <for> for the logging I >> needed over a file list. >> >> It is working on most of my platforms that have JDKs of 1.4.2 and above. >> But it fails on one that has only 1.4. I've found no documentation listing >> this as a specific limitation, but that seems to be the only environmental >> difference between an HPUX where it works and one where it doesn't. >> >> The error is: >> >> [taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource >> net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml. It could not be found. >> >> Is that a known limitation? Or can anyone suggest another way to get >> around this error? The failure to accept <taskdef> basically kills my >> ability to use any of the tasks from ant-contrib. (I'm trying to find a >> newer Java to swinstall on this machine, but keep running into dependency >> problems.) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional >> commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > -- David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
