On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Allan Lewis <allan.e.le...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I'm working on a custom ant task, and want to create a class based on > classname provided to the task. I've made a path available to the task, > but > can't quite figure out how to make those classes available to the task, so > I > wind up getting a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException when trying to create > the > class. > > > > In other words, given the following: > > > > <path id="my.path"> > > <fileset dir="lib" includes="*.jar"/> > > </path> > > > > <path id="my.runtime.path"> > > <fileset dir="lib-runtime" includes="*.jar"/> > > </path> > > > > <typedef name="mytask" classname="com.mytask.MyTask" > classpathref="my.path"/> > > > > < mytask classpathref="my.runtime.path" classname="com.foo.Bar"/> > > > > What has to happen in order to get 'com.foo.Bar' available to my task at > runtime? > > You might find org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader useful for your purposes. HTH, Matt
