Building with ant from eclipse

[sonia pandit]

I have the following in the build.xml

  
   <project default="wsgen">
      <target name="wsgen">
        <exec executable="wsgen">
            <arg line="-cp ./bin -keep -s ./src -d ./bin com.myfirst.wsServer.SayHello/>
        </exec>
     </target>
  </project>
 

I am running it from eclipse and I am getting a java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "wsgen": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified.
It looks like wsgen cannot be found. Anyone seen this before. windows->preferences->tasks
shows that wsgen is there

Thanks in advance.

[John de Michele]

Sonia:

You probably need to tell Ant what the path to wsgen is.

John.

[sonia pandit]

I set the path to point to the ant libraries. But from Eclipse? Eclipse already knows about Ant. So why is it having a problem?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Better discussed in the IDEs forum. Moving.

[John de Michele]

Sonia:

What I meant was, does Ant know where to find the wsgen executable file? Given the error you're getting, it looks like it can't. Have you tried running ant from the command line?

John.

[sonia pandit]

I tried but I get an error because it cant find Ant, But i did add it to the path. So I don't know what the problem is.

[John de Michele]

Sonia:

Have you tried using the absolute path?

John.

[sonia pandit]

you mean in the build.xml. Could you post what the build.xml should look like?

Thanks

[David Newton]

No; we don't know where your wsgen program is located.

[sonia pandit]

 
<project default="wsgen"
   ><target name = "wsgen">

   <exec executable="c:/eclipse/path/to/wsgen">
      <arg line="...

   

Do you mean like this?">

[John de Michele]

Sonia:

Yes, or create a path element (which will work out to the same thing).

John.

[Seguya Ronald Chris]

There's a posibility that you don't have the wsgen within your eclipse installation.
You could try searching for that term in you java directory, usually under a path like; C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\bi\wsgen

Use this path for the exec i.e. <exec executable="D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin\wsgen">

I had a similar issue but this solved my problem.