If you have created your JAR the first step is done. Starting the JAR could be done in several ways. Common is that you have to have all external classes on the runtime classpath:
1. Hard coded start script. Write a bash/bat-Script with the java command with all cp settings, e.g. (bat) @echo off java -cp /build/myjar.jar;lib/one.jar;lib/two.jar;lib/three.jar org.acme.Main %* 2. Wrapper script which collects all JARs in a dynamic way (see ant.bat|ant.sh) 3. Use Ant + <java><classpath> for starting 4. Create a runnable JAR which references the external JARs (manifest: main-class + classpath) 5. Create a shaded jar (uber jar, fat jar): include all classes from external jars into your jar 6. Use a launcher which uses a dependency manager for getting the classpath You don't have to replicate path definitions in your buildfile, you could (and should) use references: <javac><classpath id="runtime.cp"><fileset dir="lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>… <java><classpath refid="runtime.cp"/> You mave have a look at http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-HelloWorldWithAnt.html Jan Von: Dennis Putnam [mailto:d...@bellsouth.net] Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Februar 2019 15:40 An: user@ant.apache.org Betreff: Re: Javac Run By Ant Script is Unable to Find External Jars Hi Jaikiran, Thanks for the reply. Here is my command: /bin/ant -v -Dmember.number=$number -Dmember.name=\"$name\" -f makejar.xml I assume it is using ant's java task based on the build file (makejar.xml). I'm a bit confused. Doesn't all the necessary classpath info come from the build xml? Since the Maven pom.xml is never referenced anywhere in the build file and the Maven dependency causes that exception, it seems to me that is where the problem lies. Doesn't the pom.xml need to be referenced somewhere? In any case, how do I set up a classpath for the ant command (-lib) since I have multiple paths? Do I have to copy all my jars into a single directory? Why is duplication of these paths even necessary? This seems like it is getting far afield since I did not have to do all that before I messed up the build file classpath. On 2/18/2019 11:03 PM, Jaikiran Pai wrote: Hi Dennis, I think you are almost there to get this working. How are you running this Java application? Are you using Ant's java task? What does it look like? Just like you did with javac, the java task will need to know what classpath to use while running the application. As long as you setup your classpath to contain all these necessary jar files, you should no longer see those exceptions. -Jaikiran On 18/02/19 8:15 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: Hi Matt and Jan, Thanks to both of you as I am closer but I think I am still missing a piece. I am now getting a successful build but the resulting jar is not finding the classes in the external jars. When I run the jar I get this exception: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/HttpEntity at KCBSEvents.Registration.isRegistered(Unknown Source) at KCBSEvents.KCBSEvents.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.http.HttpEntity at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ... 2 more That happens to be the first attempt to execute one of the external jar classes which is a Maven dependency. Here is my new build.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project name="KCBSEvents" default="jar" basedir="."> <property name="build.properties" value="build.properties"/> <property name="resources" value="resource" /> <property name="jardir" value="KCBSEvents" /> <property name="KCBSDir" value="src/KCBSEvents" /> <property name="member.number" value="000000" /> <property name="member.name" value="" /> *<property name="jarpath" value="/${user.home}/.m2/repository" />** ** <path id="compile-jars">** ** <multirootfileset basedirs="${jarpath}/commons-io/2.5,${jarpath}/httpcomponents-client,${jarpath}/commons-logging/1.2,${jarpath}/commons-codec/1.10,/lib/java-ext/json-simple-1.1.1">** ** <include name="commons-io-2.5.jar" />** ** <include name="httpclient-4.5.6.jar" />** ** <include name="httpcore-4.4.10.jar" />** ** <include name="commons-logging-1.2.jar" />** ** <include name="commons-codec-1.10.jar" />** ** <include name="json-simple-1.1.1.jar" />** ** </multirootfileset>** ** </path>* <target name="checkOS"> <condition property="isWindows"> <os family="windows" /> </condition> <condition property="isLinux"> <os family="unix" /> </condition> </target> <target name="if_windows" depends="checkOS" if="isWindows"> <property name="jarfile" value="C:\temp\KCBSEvents.jar" /> <property name="antcontrib" value="H:\html\Applets\ant-contrib" /> </target> <target name="if_linux" depends="checkOS" if="isLinux"> <property name="jarfile" value="/tmp/${member.number}/KCBSEvents.jar" /> <property name="antcontrib" value="/var/www/html/Applets/ant-contrib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar" /> </target> <target name="setclass" depends="if_linux,if_windows"> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"> <classpath> <pathelement location="${antcontrib}" /> </classpath> </taskdef> </target> <target name="incserial" depends="setclass"> <copy todir="bin/${jardir}/${resources}"> <fileset dir="${KCBSDir}/${resources}"> <include name="${build.properties}" /> </fileset> <filterchain> <expandproperties /> </filterchain> </copy> <if> <isset Property="build.number" /> <then> <echo message="update build requested" /> </then> <else> <echo message="new build requested" /> <buildnumber /> </else> </if> <propertyfile file="bin/${jardir}/${resources}/${build.properties}"> <entry key="serialnumber" value="${build.number}" /> <entry key="membernumber" value="${member.number}" /> <entry key="name" value="${member.name}" /> </propertyfile> <echo message="serial number: ${build.number}" /> </target> <target name="jar" description="Compile serialized jar" depends="incserial,if_windows,if_linux"> <echo message="Using destination file ${jarfile}" /> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="bin" includeantruntime="false" *classpathref="compile-jars"* /> <jar destfile="${jarfile}" basedir="bin" filesetmanifest="mergewithoutmain"> <manifest> <attribute name="Manifest-Version" value="1.0"/> <attribute name="Created-By" value="ant 1.9.2 on CentOS 7" /> <attribute name="Main-Class" value="KCBSEvents.KCBSEvents" /> </manifest> *<!-- zipfilesets removed -->* </jar> </target> </project> Does this come back to my question about needing the zipfileset elements for the Maven jars? I don't know how the pom.xml for Maven gets pulled into this either. On 2/17/2019 12:45 PM, Matt Bertolini wrote: Hi Dennis, I think you might be mixing up Eclipse concepts and Ant concepts and that might be causing some extra confusion. Based on your original email, the compiler is having issues finding your third-party dependencies. I believe Jaikiran is correct in saying that the <javac> task needs to be given some sort of classpath. The .classpath file is an Eclipse concept and unless there is some sort of Eclipse/Ant plugin I am not aware of, the .classpath file will have no effect on Ant’s, <javac> task. Also, I don’t believe the <javac> task has a default value for the classpath attribute. If no classpath or classpathref is specified then the compiler is not passed any classpath information. I would start by locating the folder where your third-party dependencies are and create a <path> element containing them like this: <path id="compile-classpath"> <fileset dir="/the/path/to/your/third/party/jars"/> </path> Once you have a path defined you can pass the classpath to the <javac> task using a refid like this: <javac srcdir="src" destdir="bin" includeantruntime="false" classpathref="compile-classpath"/> Try that and see how it goes. Matt Bertolini
