You need to have catalina-ant.jar in your classpath as this jar contains the
tasks to manage the tomcat server.
you can either copy this jar to the ant/lib directory or use the -lib
command-line argument to specify the folder under which it is located.
Hope this helps you :)
--- On Thu, 3/10/11, Marseld Dedgjonaj <marseld.dedgjo...@ikubinfo.com> wrote:
> From: Marseld Dedgjonaj <marseld.dedgjo...@ikubinfo.com>
> Subject: antlib.xml could not be found
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7:39 AM
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am new to Ant and more detailed help would be more
> valuable to me.
>
> I am trying to use Ant to reload a tomcat application. I
> write the build.xml
> file based on "Managing Applications with Ant" section of
> the "Professional
> Apache Tomcat" book.
>
>
>
> The Build.xml file:
>
>
>
> <project name="ManageApp" default="compile"
> basedir=".">
>
>
>
> <!-- Configure the directory into which the web
> application is built -->
>
> <property name="build"
> value="${basedir}/build"/>
>
>
>
> <!-- Configure the context path for this
> application -->
>
> <property name="path"
> value="ikub_MainInstance"/>
>
>
>
> <!-- Configure properties to access the Manager
> application -->
>
> <property name="url"
> value="http://localhost:8080/manager/html"/>
>
> <property name="username" value="manager"/>
>
> <property name="password"
> value="manager123+"/>
>
>
>
> <!-- Configure the custom Ant tasks for the
> Manager application -->
>
> <taskdef name="deploy"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="list"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="reload"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="resources"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="roles"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="start"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="stop"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask"/>
>
> <taskdef name="undeploy"
> classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask"/>
>
>
>
>
>
> <!-- Executable Targets -->
>
> <target name="compile"
> description="Compile web application">
>
> </target>
>
>
>
> <target name="reload"
> description="Reload web application"
>
>
> depends="compile">
>
> <reload url="${url}"
> username="${username}" password="${password}"
>
>
> path="${path}"/>
>
> </target>
>
>
>
>
>
> <target name="deploy" description="Install web
> application"
>
> depends="compile">
>
> <deploy url="${url}"
> username="${username}" password="${password}"
>
> path="${path}"
> war="file:${build}${path}.war"/>
>
> </target>
>
>
>
> <target name="undeploy" description="Remove web
> application">
>
> <undeploy url="${url}"
> username="${username}" password="${password}"
>
>
> path="${path}"/>
>
> </target>
>
>
>
> </project>
>
>
>
>
>
> When I run "ant reload -debug" I got this error:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Adding reference: ant.PropertyHelper
>
> Detected Java version: 1.6 in:
> /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0/jre
>
> Detected OS: Linux
>
> Adding reference: ant.ComponentHelper
>
> Setting ro project property: ant.file ->
> /mnt/ikub_nutch/AppHelpers/ManageWebApps/build.xml
>
> Adding reference: ant.projectHelper
>
> Adding reference: ant.parsing.context
>
> Adding reference: ant.targets
>
> parsing buildfile
> /mnt/ikub_nutch/AppHelpers/ManageWebApps/build.xml with
> URI =
> file:/mnt/ikub_nutch/AppHelpers/ManageWebApps/build.xml
>
> Setting ro project property: ant.project.name ->
> ManageApp
>
> Adding reference: ManageApp
>
> Setting ro project property: ant.file.ManageApp ->
> /mnt/ikub_nutch/AppHelpers/ManageWebApps/build.xml
>
> Project base dir set to:
> /mnt/ikub_nutch/AppHelpers/ManageWebApps
>
> +Target:
>
> +Target: compile
>
> +Target: reload
>
> +Target: deploy
>
> +Target: undeploy
>
> [antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions
> from resource
> org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
>
> Setting project property: build ->
> /mnt/ikub_nutch/AppHelpers/ManageWebApps/build
>
> Setting project property: path -> ikub_MainInstance
>
> Setting project property: url -> http://localhost:8080/manager/html
>
> Setting project property: username -> manager
>
> Setting project property: password -> manager123+
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask loaded from parent
> loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype deploy org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask loaded from parent
> loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype list org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask loaded from parent
> loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype reload org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask loaded from
> parent loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> Trying to override old definition of datatype resources
>
> +Datatype resources org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask loaded from parent
> loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype roles org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask loaded from parent
> loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype start org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask loaded from parent
> loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype stop org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask
>
> Class org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask loaded from
> parent loader
> (parentFirst)
>
> +Datatype undeploy org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask
>
> Attempting to create object of type
> org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor
>
> Adding reference: ant.executor
>
> Build sequence for target(s) `reload' is [compile, reload]
>
> Complete build sequence is [compile, reload, deploy,
> undeploy, ]
>
>
>
> compile:
>
>
>
> reload:
>
> [reload] <html>
>
> [reload] <head>
>
> [reload] <style>
>
>
>
> ....
>
>
>
> [reload] </html>
>
>
>
> BUILD FAILED
>
> <html>
>
> at
> org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.ja
> va:258)
>
> at
> org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.ja
> va:146)
>
> at
> org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask.execute(ReloadTask.java:72)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
>
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
> Method)
>
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39
> )
>
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
> .java:25)
>
> at
> java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.j
> ava:41)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257)
>
> at
> org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104)
>
>
>
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
>
>
>
>
> Please any help for this issue.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Marseldi
>
>
>
>
>
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