[jdom-interest] Not just another NoClassDefFoundError FAQ...

[Todd O'Bryan]

My previous post was one of the FAQs. Sorry about that. I've been using 
JDOM for about two years and never had that particular problem come.

The reason is that I've always stuck jdom.jar and xerces.jar in my 
extensions folder, and, finally, in my old age, I've decided to try 
managing classpaths for various projects. Which brings me to a question 
that may be too off-topic...

I've tried setting up an Ant task which copies a bunch of jars from 
various places around my computer into a super-jar and then I specify 
that super-jar as my classpath in any code that runs code. In 
particular, here's the makelibjar task:

	<target name="makelibjar">
		<jar destfile="${build.lib}/lib.jar">
			<zipfileset src="/usr/local/jdom-b9/lib/xerces.jar" />
			<zipfileset src="/Library/Tomcat/common/lib/servlet.jar" />
			<zipfileset src="/usr/local/jdom-b9/build/jdom.jar" />
			<zipfileset src="/usr/local/junit3.8.1/junit.jar" />
		</jar>
	</target>

And here's the test task I'm trying to run:

	<target name="test" depends="compile" description="Run the JUnit 
tests.">
		<java classname="org.dupontmanual.resourceviewer.ResourceListTest">
			<classpath>
				<pathelement location="${build.classes}" />
				<pathelement location="${build.lib}/lib.jar" />
			</classpath>
		</java>
	</target>

I realize this question might be better suited to an Ant discussion 
list, but on the JDOM-related side, am I not including something that I 
should be? Is there an easier way to do this that someone could point 
me to?

Thanks, and sorry about the FAQ before,
Todd