Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 6813 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2004 08:54:27 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Aug 2004 08:54:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 73311 invoked by uid 500); 12 Aug 2004 08:54:24 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 73258 invoked by uid 500); 12 Aug 2004 08:54:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 73240 invoked by uid 99); 12 Aug 2004 08:54:23 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=10.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME,UPPERCASE_25_50 X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [192.18.33.10] (HELO exchange.sun.com) (192.18.33.10) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.27.1) with SMTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:54:19 -0700 Received: (qmail 26384 invoked by uid 50); 12 Aug 2004 08:55:53 -0000 Date: 12 Aug 2004 08:55:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20040812085553.26383.qmail@nagoya.betaversion.org> From: bugzilla@apache.org To: dev@ant.apache.org Cc: Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 30611] - java.lang.InstantiationException - starting ANT X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT . ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30611 java.lang.InstantiationException - starting ANT ------- Additional Comments From stevel@apache.org 2004-08-12 08:55 ------- Wierd. "Thrown when an application tries to use the Java new construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface. Normally, this error is caught by the compiler; this error can only occur at run time if the definition of a class has incompatibly changed. " This is a linkage error of some form or other. I would hypothesise that somewhere on your classpath you have an old copy of ant.jar, an incompatible copy of ant.sh, or the like 1. what is CLASSPATH? 2. set the env variable ant_exec_debug , run ant and see whats get printed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org