----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastien Boving" To: "Ant Developers List" Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Modern compiler not available > > Actually, a co-worker went through the same issue (on a very similar w2k&soft > install), and found the solution: Remove ant-XX.jar from the Sun SDK. Does the JDK now include an ant distro? Interesting. I will have to pull down the latest beta and check. > > Even though it is nowhere listed in my CLASSPATH (or in the java.class.path or > javac classpath), somehow $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/ant-XX.jar gets loaded before > the (real) ant.jar, and confuses everything. Renaming the file doesn't help, > you have to (re)move it out that directory that is extension directories for you. It is a definate no-no to put ant in there. Indeed, we dont encourage anything to go in there, it only causes problems, the key one being because ext classes load in a different classloader, they cant find things like tools.jar loaded in the normal one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: