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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