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Subject: beginners question
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hello everyone,
 i am a newbie to ant and read about the same at a couple of places.could
you please tell me some thing more about ant,and the resources available
online.


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---- Jeff Turner <jeff@socialchange.net.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:25:40PM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 17:15, Jeff Turner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use <taskdef> to define the <junit> task, so I don't
> have
> > > to require all users to copy junit.jar to the $ANT_HOME/lib.
> [..]
> > 
> > Unfortunately it isn't possible. The reason is that Ant will go looking
> for 
> > the junit task. It will first call the loadClass() in the ClassLoader
> created 
> > by taskdef. However this ClassLoader will first check the parent
> classloader 
> > for the junit class. It will find the junit class (because it is
> in 
> > ${ant.home}/lib/optional.jar). However unless junit.jar is also in
> the parent 
> > classloader, the JVM will be unable to locate the required junit
> classes and 
> > thus will report that it fails to load the junit task.
> 
> Ah of course.. the joys of delegating classloaders..
> 
> thanks,
> 
> --Jeff
> 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Pete
> 
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