Build.xml problem

[Biju]

Guys, i get a error when i try to build Ant. I am using

Tomcat Version : 6.0
Ant Version : 1.7.1
Java : 1.6

The error which i get is

C:\myusers>ant new -Dapp.name=myusers
Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
C:\myusers\build.xml:164: taskdef class org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask cannot
t be found

Total time: 0 seconds
C:\myusers>

I checked into the tomcat folder in the lib and found that RemoveTask File is present in the catalina-ant.jar


Why is Ant not locating the jar file in my Tomcat lib? I have checked the environment variables set and it sounds clear.

Update :

In the build.xml file its something like this.

<taskdef file="tomcatTasks.properties">
<classpath>
<pathelement path="${tomcat.home}/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>

[hooknc]

Make sure your TOMCAT.HOME environment variable is set properly.

Best of Luck.

[sg707]

or you can just drop that jar right into ${ANT_HOME}/libs . Just FYI, maven is far better than ant.

[Biju]

Make sure your TOMCAT.HOME environment variable is set properly.

Best of Luck.

Well i did set mate and even to the lib file directly. Thanx mate for your reply.

or you can just drop that jar right into ${ANT_HOME}/libs . Just FYI, maven is far better than ant.

This worked like a charm mate. I have also thought of using maven, but ant makes me comfortable. Will you head up me why should i change to maven.

Thanx a lot mate for your reply.

[Biju]

C:\myusers>ant deploy
Buildfile: build.xml

compile:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\myusers\build\classes
[javac] Compiling 2 source files to C:\myusers\build\classes

BUILD FAILED
C:\myusers\build.xml:53: C:\myusers\${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib not found.

Total time: 0 seconds

Now when i try to deploy it again shows this sort of error. I really like Ant, so i don't want to head up with maven.

[sg707]

this looks weird to me
C:\myusers\${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib

it should be
${env.CATALINA_HOME}\common\lib

[sg707]

reason to use maven? consider ant as "C" and maven is "C++"

[hooknc]

reason to use maven? consider ant as "C" and maven is "C++"

I think that is more of a comparison then a reason really. And depending on what you're doing c might be better then c++.

So here are the reasons I've heard of using Maven instead of Ant.

Maven has a better concept of modules.
Maven has a better way of handling deployment to different environment using profiles.
Maven will resolve jar dependencies quite nicely.

There probably are more reasons to use Maven, but I don't know them off the top of my head.

Maven does have one huge drawback in my mind and that is its horrible online documentation. Last time I looked at Maven I couldn't even figure out how to run a Maven build. Which is too bad, because there are a lot of people that really like Maven.

My recommendation is to go out and get a Maven book of some sort and then read though it.

Ant is a good product, but Maven is probably better at doing environment builds.

Best of Luck.

[tattobit]

post you build.xml here. Looks like you have a missing reference.

[sg707]

I think that is more of a comparison then a reason really. And depending on what you're doing c might be better then c++.

So here are the reasons I've heard of using Maven instead of Ant.

Maven has a better concept of modules.
Maven has a better way of handling deployment to different environment using profiles.
Maven will resolve jar dependencies quite nicely.

There probably are more reasons to use Maven, but I don't know them off the top of my head.

Maven does have one huge drawback in my mind and that is its horrible online documentation. Last time I looked at Maven I couldn't even figure out how to run a Maven build. Which is too bad, because there are a lot of people that really like Maven.

My recommendation is to go out and get a Maven book of some sort and then read though it.

Ant is a good product, but Maven is probably better at doing environment builds.

Best of Luck.

At first, my primary reason to use Maven is for Jar version control. There were times when 2 frameworks share common "jars" and these jars had different version...... But, later found many many many many cool features of Maven

Try the "external resource" link from maven site for Documentation, it's got more than enough.

http://maven.apache.org/articles.html