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

[Todd O'Bryan]

Ahhh...

If you don't want to be frustrated, don't try to do the impossible is,  
I suppose, the message.

Thanks,
Todd

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 10:36  PM, Eric Rosenberg wrote:

> http://forum.java.sun.com/ 
> thread.jsp?thread=416823&forum=22&message=1847324
>
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 09:56 pm, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>> 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
>>
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