Glen, thanks for responding. I placed both the property and path element
references to servlet-api
at the beginning of their respective sections, and defined jdk.javac.path. I
still get the same
error.
Any ideas on why build.xml provided by the Tomcat website doesn't work?
--- Glen Mazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Olinga K. Abbott wrote:
>
> > BUILD FAILED
> > E:\workspace\progsoftware\trunk\source\jasper\build.xml:5: taskdef A class
> > needed by class
> > org.apache.jasper.JspC cannot be found: javax/servlet/ServletException
> >
>
> Of course, it looks like it can't find javax.servlet.ServletException
> while building. This is kept in servlet-api.jar.
>
> >
> > ant -Dtomcat.home="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5"
> > -Dwebapp.path=E:\workspace\progsoftware\trunk\source\jasper
> >
> > webapp.path is the working directory, target directory, and source
> > directory, since I want to
> keep
> > things as simple as possible while getting everything working correctly.
> >
> >
> > --------- BEGIN ------------
> >
> > <project name="Webapp Precompilation" default="jspc" basedir=".">
> >
> > <property name="ant.lib" location="C:/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib"/>
> > <property name="tomcat.home" location="C:/Program Files/Apache Software
> > Foundation/Tomcat
> 5.5"/>
> > <property name="jdk.tools" location="C:/Program
> > Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_06/lib/tools.jar"/>
> > <property name="jasper.compiler" location="${ant.lib}/jasper-compiler.jar"/>
> > <property name="jasper.runtime" location="${ant.lib}/jasper-runtime.jar"/>
> > <property name="servlet.api"
> > location="${tomcat.home}/common/lib/servlet-api.jar"/>
> >
> > <echo message="${jasper.compiler}"/>
> > <echo message="${servlet.api}"/>
> > <echo message="${jdk.tools}"/>
> >
> > <path id="classpath">
> > <pathelement location="${jdk.javac.path}"/>
> > <pathelement location="${jasper.compiler}"/>
> > <pathelement location="${jasper.runtime}"/>
> > <pathelement location="${servlet.api}"/>
> > </path>
> >
>
> jdk.javac.path doesn't seem to be defined anywhere--that may be a
> problem. Also, I'm unsure if it matters, but ${servlet.api} is listed
> last in this set, so the Jasper libraries listed earlier may not be able
> to find it, and hence may not be able to see the ServletException class.
> I would move servlet.api before the jasper references.
>
>
> > <taskdef classname="org.apache.jasper.JspC" name="jasper2">
> > <classpath refid="classpath" />
> > </taskdef>
> >
> > <target name="jspc">
> > <classpath refid="classpath" />
> > <jasper2
> > validateXml="false"
> > uriroot="."
> > webXmlFragment="./generated_web.xml"
> > outputDir="." />
> > </target>
> >
> > </project>
> >
>
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