RE: Can't get optional tasks to work

[Jon Skeet]

> I'm having a devil of a time getting the optional.jar to be 
> recognized by
> Ant 1.3. I'm running under JDK 1.2 on Solaris. I'm trying a simple ant
> script that uses the optional ftp task:
> 
>   <target name="ftp" depends="init">
>     <ftp server="ftp.apache.org"
>        userid="anonymous"
>        password="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
>        <fileset dir="htdocs/manual"/>
>     </ftp>
>   </target>

FTP uses the NetComponents library, which doesn't seem to be in your 
classpath - see the documentation for where to get it.

Jon