does not work: the files never get deleted
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
You have used a
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Skipped targets are still executed
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
You have a target You want to skip if a property is set, so You have unless=”property” as an attribute of the target, but all the targets this target depends on are still executed.
/ error
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
In Your
Ant fails to build via javac
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
Ant failed to build Your program via javac even when You put the needed jars in an external build.properties file and reference them by pathelement or classpath refid.
Ant creates WAR/JAR files with a lower-case
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
Ant created WAR files with a lower-case web-inf or JAR files with a lower-case meta-inf directory.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError while using Ant
Applies to:
Ant 1.6.x
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
You have installed Ant 1.6.x and now get Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. The cause of this is that there is an old version of ant somewhere in the class path or configuration.
java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.tools.ant.Main
Applies to:
Ant 1.6.x
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
You have installed Ant 1.6.x and now get java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.tools.ant.Main. The cause of this is that there is an old version of ant somewhere in the class path or configuration.
Resulting jar does not work in my application server
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
You have used the Ant jar or manifest related tasks, long lines in Your manifest were wrapped at 70 characters and the resulting jar did not work in Your application server
causes other tasks to hang or leads to strange behaviour of tasks
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
You have used
tasks.
causes a StackOverflowError
Applies to:
Ant
Description:
Occurs while using Apache Ant.
Cause:
StackOverflowError was thrown inside Sun’s javac compiler.