Path not working

[Robo Fazak]

Hi,

I am new to Ant build tool, I am learning ant to deploy my web service in Tomcat.

Copied portion of my build.xml. Path is not working properly can anybody tell me the reason.

<property name="lib.home" value="${env.JAXWS_HOME}/lib"/>
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<path id="jaxws.classpath" >
		<pathelement location="${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar"/>
		<fileset dir="${lib.home}">
			<include name="*.jar"/>
			<exclude name="j2ee.jar"/>
		</fileset>
	</path>

<taskdef name="apt" classname="com.sun.tools.ws.ant.Apt">
		<classpath refid="jaxws.classpath"/>
	</taskdef>

When i point mouse on path id it show path as mybasedir/${lib.home}, which is an invalid path so my taskdef is not working

Advanced thanks

[Peter Johnson]

Please use code tags when posting source, makes it much easier to read.

What do you mean by "is not working"? http://faq.javaranch.com/java/ItDoesntWorkIsUseless

[Robo Fazak]

Exception is thrown at running

build-server-java:
[apt] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/apt/Main
[apt] Exception in thread "main"

[Peter Johnson]

There is an inconsistency in your post - the original post refers to one class name but the error message you posted refers to a different class name.

[Robo Fazak]

When i used the defined path in the following task i got this exception

   <apt
                fork="true"
                debug="true"
                verbose="${verbose}"
                destdir="${build.classes.home}"
                sourcedestdir="${build.classes.home}"
                sourcepath="${basedir}/src">
			<classpath>
				<path refid="jaxws.classpath"/>
				<pathelement location="${basedir}/src"/>
			</classpath>
			<option key="r" value="${build.home}"/>
			<source dir="${basedir}/src">
				<include name="**/server/*.java"/>
				<include name="**/common/*.java"/>
			</source>
		</apt> 

[Robo Fazak]

 <project basedir="." default="server" name="WebServiceServer">

	<property environment="env" />
	<property name="as.home" value="${env.AS_HOME}" />
	<property name="lib.home" value="${env.JAXWS_HOME}/lib" />
	<property name="lib.sample.home" value="${basedir}/../lib" />
	<property name="build.home" value="${basedir}/build" />
	<property name="build.war.home" value="${build.home}/war" />
	<property name="build.classes.home" value="${build.home}/classes" />


	<path id="jaxws.classpath">
		<pathelement location="${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar" />
		<fileset dir="${lib.home}">
			<include name="*.jar" />
			<exclude name="j2ee.jar" />
		</fileset>
	</path>

	<taskdef name="apt" classname="com.sun.tools.ws.ant.Apt">
		<classpath>
			<pathelement location="${lib.home}/jaxws-tools.jar" />
		</classpath>
	</taskdef>

	<target name="clean">
		<delete dir="${build.home}" includeEmptyDirs="true" />
	</target>
	<target name="setup">
		<mkdir dir="${build.home}" />
		<mkdir dir="${build.classes.home}" />
		<mkdir dir="${build.war.home}" />
	</target>

	<target name="build-server-java" depends="setup">
		<apt fork="true" debug="true" verbose="${verbose}" destdir="${build.classes.home}" sourcedestdir="${build.classes.home}" sourcepath="${basedir}/src">
			<classpath>
				<path refid="jaxws.classpath" />
				<pathelement location="${basedir}/src" />
			</classpath>
			<option key="r" value="${build.home}" />
			<source dir="${basedir}/src">
				<include name="**/server/*.java" />
				<include name="**/common/*.java" />
			</source>
		</apt>

	</target>

	<target name="create-war">
		<war warfile="${build.war.home}/${ant.project.name}.war" webxml="etc/web.xml">
			<webinf dir="${basedir}/etc" includes="sun-jaxws.xml" />
			<zipfileset dir="${basedir}/etc" includes="*.wsdl, *.xsd" prefix="WEB-INF/wsdl" />
			<classes dir="${build.classes.home}" />
		</war>
	</target>

	<target name="deploy">
		<copy file="${build.war.home}/${ant.project.name}.war" todir="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/webapps" />
	</target>

	<target name="server">
		<echo message="server:Builds and deploy the service endpoint WAR" />
		<antcall target="clean" />
		<antcall target="build-server-java" />
		<antcall target="create-war" />
		<antcall target="deploy"/>
	</target>

</project>   

When i run this code from commandline using ant it is running but it is throwing the above exception in eclipse(When Run as -> Ant Build).

Can anybody tell me the reason.