Adding new task

[Ethan Gur]

Hi

I wrote a new task for a project. I exported it to a jar file, and put it in the lib/ant folder. When I try to run ant, I get the following error:

taskdef class messaging_as.util.crypt.MASANTFileCryptTask cannot be found

If I put the class file in classes folder, then ant succeeds. But I I don't want to do this, I want to seperate this task from my project.

Please help...
Thanks

[Carol Enderlin]

You can jar it up, looks like people commonly list that jar explicitly in the build file:

<taskdef name="customtask" classname="com.mycom.MyCustomTask">
    <classpath>
        <pathelement location="mytasks.jar"/>
    </classpath>
 </taskdef>

[Bear Bibeault]

"gur",

We're pleased to have you here with us on the Ranch, but there are a few rules that need to be followed, and one is that proper names are required. Please take a look at the JavaRanch Naming Policy and adjust your display name to match it.

In particular, your display name must be a first and a last name separated by a space character, and must not be obviously fictitious.

Thanks!
bear
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