Hey guys. Took me a little while to track this one down. Hopefully I didn't miss any threads where this one has already been discovered.
In building 4.0 from CVS, commons-digester was consistently not getting detected by Ant. I tracked it down to the fact that digester depends on collections and logging, but the <available> task only had commons-digester.jar in the classpath. Appeneding commons-collections.jar and commons-logging.jar to the classpath attrib for that task corrected the problem. The specific reason the detection fails is that the Ant <available> task (in 1.5 at least) attempts to check that the specified class can be loaded, and it does this by attempting to instantiate it through reflection. It uses a purposely invalid constructor signature so that constructor code doesn't _really_ get executed, but the static initializer does. Because the JVM can't resolve the commons-collections and commons-logging imports at that point, it tosses a ClassDefNotFoundError, which Ant then interprets as a class that cannot be correctly loaded and reports available=false. Since I'm not intimately familiar the Catalina build process as a whole, I'll leave to someone who is to (hopefully :) verify my solution and do the commit. - Christopher /** * Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez vous en eau! * La moitie de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau. * * - Corneille */ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
