ant and junit, kicking my butt

[Tony Smith]

I'd read the documentation, but I don't know what part of the documentation to read!

<target name="junit" depends="compile">
   <junit printsummary="yes" fork="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
      <formatter type="brief" usefile="true" />
         <classpath path=".;c:\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5\lib\ant-junit.jar" />
         <test todir="c:\temp" name="com.comdata.svs.osi.xpnet.LaxPathwayBeanTest" />
   </junit>
</target>

Gives the ubiquitous

C:\yadda\build.xml:68: Could not create task or type of type: junit.
 
Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon.

Does this mean that somehow junit isn't bound to the appropriate class in the classpath? I am using websphere, it understands the syntax of the junit task.

I am probably making this a lot harder than it is but I keep going around in circles.

questions:
1) how can I tell which class (and jar) the junit task is supposed to be associated with
2) when do I specify that jar? it seems to me that putting it in the classpath within the junit task is too late! I added the ant-junit.jar to my system path but that didn't seem to help.

help please!

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

This is stupid, painful, and obnoxious, and frankly, I don't understand why they don't simply ship things this way already, but... the simple, direct, easy fix is to drop a copy of junit.jar into your ANT_HOME/lib directory.

[Tony Smith]

I copied the file and got no change in behavior.

When ant sees 'junit' how does it know which junit class to execute? I have tried 100 things and nothing has affected the output at all - same error. It is if my error is far more basic.

[Tony Smith]

This problem relates to websphere. Specifically, it includes a way to configure the environment for ant internally. It seems to ignore the system classpath and path. I pointed it to the junit.jar as inspired by your suggestion and got a little farther.

[Tony Smith]

It seems like I can't solve anything until I get frustrated and post here.

Anyway, here's a solution that is pure ant (no websphere) except for putting junit.jar into the classpath before the 'junit' target gets invoked.

<target name="junit">
   <junit printsummary="yes" fork="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
      <formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
      <classpath>
         <pathelement location="osi_utils.jar" />
         <pathelement location="data_access_interface.jar" />
         <pathelement location="./bin" />
      </classpath>
      <batchtest fork="yes">
         <fileset dir="./src">
            <include name="**/*Test.java" />
        </fileset>
      </batchtest>
   </junit>
</target>