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New to ant build file question

 
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I am new to ANT and am trying to build my first build.xml file

I get a message stating :
'ss' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

This is where the error is thrown:

<target name="getSourceJava">
<vssget
localpath="${source.java.dir}"
serverPath="${vss.server}"
vsspath="${vss.source.java}"
/>
</target>


Here are the supporting properties:

<property name="source.dir" value="source" />
<property name="source.java.dir" value="${source.dir}/java" />

<property name="vss.server"
value="//vssServer/dept/devsource/vss_dbs/development/"/>

<property name="vss.source.java" value="$/Developers/In_Development/CentralizedProcessingDataWarehouse/Staging/LoadData/*.java"/>

It smells like a stupid typo but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt
 
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Joey,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

It looks like the vss task is calling something else that isn't in the classpath. Does the documentation for VSS say if it relies on any other jars?
 
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I believe that ss is the name of the SourceSafe executable. Try calling that command directly from the commandline where you are running your ant script. You may find that you need to set the classpath to find that executable.
 
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