Do u just want to run the jar ? I'm am not sure I understand your point exactly cause I'm also kinda newbie but you can run classes from a jar using the following task. Vikas -----Original Message----- From: Bender, Christopher [mailto:Christopher.Bender@tdsecurities.com] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:51 AM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: Greeting and task development question Hey everyone! Im new to this list and am a little unsure of how things work but Im sure Ill catch on soon enough. My first question is regarding the writing of my own tasks. I have been able to write a simple task and get it to run using the information found in the ant manual. Unfortunate, I need to run more complex tasks that have been zipped into a jar file. I have the manifest for the jar pointing to the class I want to run, and now I am wondering if there is anyway I can get ant to run this jar? Thanks a lot, Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@ant.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@ant.apache.org