Ant cannot find a class needed by an externally defined taskdef

Question

I am trying to use the axis-java2wsdl ant task to create a wsdl from one of my java classes, but I cannot get the classpath correct.

I am using Ubuntu\'s libaxis-jav

Answer 1

Ant mechanism for adding libraries is:

• via command line argument -lib
• adding to ${user.home}/.ant/lib
• adding to ${ant.home}/lib

Only. The manual doesn't mention anything about using the system.library.dir property. Probably it pretty much ignored for this purpose.

Also, run ant in verbose mode ( and -verbose ) to see what is doing under the hood.