creating long classpath?

[hasan khan]

i want to compile my java code.
this java code require 18 jar files to compile which are placed in 2 different directories.

please tell me how to compile the code to add all the jar files in the classpath.

  <javac srcdir="${SRC}" destdir="${CLASSES}"/>  

[Tim Holloway]

I think this is what you wanted:

  <path id="classpath">
        <pathelement location="WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.jar"/>
    <pathelement location="WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester.jar"/>
    <pathelement location="web/WEB-INF/lib/myfaces.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="web/WEB-INF/lib/myfaces-jsf-api.jar"/>
        <pathelement location="${servlet.jar}"/>
    </path>
 
    <path id="kodo.class.path"> <!-- The webapp's build classpath -->
        <fileset dir="${kodo.lib.dir}">
            <include name="*.jar"/>
        </fileset>
        <fileset dir="lib">
            <include name="ojdbc14.jar"/>  <!-- oracle -->
        </fileset>
        <fileset dir="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
            <include name="spring.jar"/>
            <include name="commons-pool-1.2.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </path>
 

 
  <javac srcdir="${src.java.dir}"
   destdir="${build.webapp.dir}/WEB-INF/classes"
   source="${source.level}"
   excludes="**/*.html"
   debug="${debug}">
            <src path="${src.java.dir}"/>
            <src path="${src.generated.java.dir}"/>
            <classpath>
                <path refid="classpath"/>
                <path refid="kodo.class.path"/>
            </classpath>
      </javac>
    </target>

A little more complex than some, perhaps. I use it on a project that pulls in all the JDO jars (wildcard in directory) plus selected explicitly-named jars. The other class path definition being pulled in (the one named "classpath") mostly references stuff that's already in a prototype web app that will be copied/merged to build the working web app.