Question

i have a problem ant script:

<taskdef name="CFileEdit" classname="com.ANT_Tasks.CFileEdit"/>

where taskdef class com.ANT_Tasks.CFileEdit cannot be found

now i have CFileEdit.java and i did this:

1. CFileEdit.java compiled into CFiledEdit.class
2. CFileEdit.class into CFileEdit.jar
3. Place CFileEdit.jar into ANT_HOME\lib?

I am not sure if step 3 is correct. I do not wish to add a path in my ant script. Thanks

Answer 1

You can specify a classpath for the taskdef (example for svnkit):

<taskdef name="svnkit" 
    className="org.tigris.subversion.svnant.SvnTask"
    classpathref="svnkit.classpath" />

  <path id="svnkit.classpath">
    <fileset dir="${3rd.lib.dir}/svnant/svnant/1.3.0/" >
      <include name="*.jar" />
    </fileset>  
  </path>

-EDIT-
If you don’t want to alter the taskdef you can choose one of the following options to place the jar (from : http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html):

In ANT_HOME/lib. This makes the JAR
files available to all Ant users and
builds.

In ${user.home}/.ant/lib (as of Ant
1.6). This allows different users to add new libraries to Ant. All JAR
files added to this directory are
available to command-line Ant.

On the command line with a -lib
parameter. This lets you add new JAR
files on a case-by-case basis.

In the CLASSPATH environment variable.
Avoid this; it makes the JAR files
visible to all Java applications, and
causes no end of support calls. See
below for details.