My system is a laptop running Linux Redhat 9. I have installed Tomcat 5.0.14 from a binary download distribution.
The sample applications work perfectly. I can compile my application with no problems. But when I issue the ant command "ant install" I receive the following output : ___________________________________________________________ Buildfile: build.xml prepare: compile: install: BUILD FAILED /home/bkimelman/tomcat1/build.xml:365: Could not create task or type of type: deploy. Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon. This is common and has a number of causes; the usual solutions are to read the manual pages then download and install needed JAR files, or fix the build file: - You have misspelt 'deploy'. Fix: check your spelling. - The task needs an external JAR file to execute and this is not found at the right place in the classpath. Fix: check the documentation for dependencies. Fix: declare the task. - The task is an Ant optional task and optional.jar is absent Fix: look for optional.jar in ANT_HOME/lib, download if needed - The task was not built into optional.jar as dependent libraries were not found at build time. Fix: look in the JAR to verify, then rebuild with the needed libraries, or download a release version from apache.org - The build file was written for a later version of Ant Fix: upgrade to at least the latest release version of Ant - The task is not an Ant core or optional task and needs to be declared using <taskdef>. Remember that for JAR files to be visible to Ant tasks implemented in ANT_HOME/lib, the files must be in the same directory or on the classpath Please neither file bug reports on this problem, nor email the Ant mailing lists, until all of these causes have been explored, as this is not an Ant bug. Total time: 13 seconds ______________________________________________ I followed all the "instructions" in the sample build.xml" file with respect to copying files into the appropriate locations. I then reran the ant command with the debugging option "ant -d install" According to the debugging output from ant, the "compilation classpath" does indeed contain a reference to the JAR file which contains the DeployTask class file. __________________ Here is the relevant portion from my build.xml file. I created this file by copying the sample build.xml file and making the appropriate changes. 340 <!-- ==================== Install Target ================================== --> 341 342 <!-- 343 344 The "install" target tells the specified Tomcat 5 installation to dynamically 345 install this web application and make it available for execution. It does 346 *not* cause the existence of this web application to be remembered across 347 Tomcat restarts; if you restart the server, you will need to re-install all 348 this web application. 349 350 If you have already installed this application, and simply want Tomcat to 351 recognize that you have updated Java classes (or the web.xml file), use the 352 "reload" target instead. 353 354 NOTE: This target will only succeed if it is run from the same server that 355 Tomcat is running on. 356 357 NOTE: This is the logical opposite of the "remove" target. 358 359 --> 360 361 <target name="install" depends="compile" 362 description="Install application to servlet container"> 363 364 <deploy url="${manager.url}" 365 username="${manager.username}" 366 password="${manager.password}" 367 path="${app.path}" 368 war="file://${build.home}"/> 369 370 </target> __________________________________________ Any ideas as to where I should look for the problem ??