Hi nauke, can we please see you cactiftywar task?
i guess that you are trying to place the classpath nested element inside the cactifywar element, which is impossible. I will have more to tell you once I see the build.xml you have. Cheers, Petar. 2008/6/10 nauke. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Hope I got the right mailing list. > > Environment: > jboss-4.2.2.GA > junit-3.8.1 > cactus-1.7.2 > eclipse > java 5 > ant > > Initially I was trying to run my cactus target, that looks like this: > > <target name="cactus"> > <taskdef name="runservertests" > classname="org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.RunServerTestsTask"> > <classpath refid="project.classpath" /> > </taskdef> > <runservertests testURL=" > > http://localhost:8080/myproject/ServletRedirectorSecure?Cactus_Service=RUN_TEST > " > > starttarget="jboss.start" > testtarget="test" > stoptarget="jboss.shutdown"/> > </target> > > but I kept getting the following error: > > ... build.xml:464: Problem: failed to create task or type cactifywar > Cause: The name is undefined. > Action: Check the spelling. > Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared. > Action: Check that any <presetdef>/<macrodef> declarations have taken > place. > > After some googling, apparently the cactus library files I need are missing > from my classpath. > I double checked and saw that all the library files I need were already in > my project.classpath, specified in my build.xml > Since since this obviously wasn't working or I was doing something wrong, I > decided to follow the instructions on this page: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/ant/howto_ant_cactus.html > > So i defined my property names and the path id="cactus.classpath". > All was good, until I added the following: > > <taskdef resource="cactus.tasks" classpathref="cactus.classpath"/> > > and modified my cactus target section from: > > <classpath refid="project.classpath" /> > > to: > > <classpath refid="cactus.classpath" /> > > and now I get this error: > > build.xml:464: cactifywar doesn't support the nested "classpath" element. > > *pulls hair out* > why??? > Even if I leave that classpath refid value with project.classpath, it does > the same thing. > Can't find an answer for the life of me! > On that howto link above, it even says: > > " An important fact to note about the *<cactifywar>* task is that it > extends > the builtin Ant task *<war>*. That's why we can add the nested > *<classes>*and > *<lib>* elements in the example above." > > Does anyone know? > > Cheers, > nic > -- Regards, Petar! Karlovo, Bulgaria. - - - - - - - - | Author @ Manning Publications. | Technical Consultant @ HP | BGJUG-Bulgarian Java User Group Leader. | Apache Jakarta PMC member. | Jakarta Cactus Lead Developer. | Blogger: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/paranoiabla/ - - - - - - - - Public PGP Key at: https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x19658550C3110611 Key Fingerprint: A369 A7EE 61BC 93A3 CDFF 55A5 1965 8550 C311 0611
