Question

I have a class that imports some servlet libraries. When I compile it from command-line it is fine.

When I use the ant compile task to compile it, it gives the errors that it can’t find the servlet libraries in its path.

Is that a known/common occurrence?

Here is my Ant target:

<target name="compile" depends="prepare" description="compile the source" >
    <echo>=== COMPILE === SRCDIR: ${src}/com/udfr/src/java </echo> <!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
    <javac srcdir="${src}/com/udfr/src/java" destdir="${dist}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
</target>

Answer 1

It’s a common occurrence if you don’t specify the servlet libraries properly in the classpath for the javac task… I suspect that’s the problem. If you post the task which fails and the command line which works, we’ll be able to help more.