Error building a Project using Ant

[Orby Sullivan]

Hi All,
I'm new to Java and trying to do the following tutorial on Spring:

http://static.springsource.org/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/part1.html

I'm getting the following error when i try build a Project using Ant:

C:\Users\Orby\workspace\Springapp>Ant
Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\Orby\workspace\Springapp\build.xml:85: taskdef class org.apache.catalin
a.ant.InstallTask cannot be found

Total time: 0 seconds

My Ant build.properties file looks like:

appserver.home=C:/General/Software/apache-tomcat-7.0.2
appserver.lib=${appserver.home}/lib
deploy.path=${appserver.home}/webapps

tomcat.manager.url=http://localhost:8080/manager
tomcat.manager.username=tomcat
tomcat.manager.password=s3cret  

and i found another URL referring to the same error:

http://www.coderanch.com/t/108299/tools/Error-while-running-ant-InstallTask

but i'm not sure what i need to do with the classpath in order to resolve this issue?

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

O.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Here's a thread about this same problem, maybe this will help.

[Orby Sullivan]

Thanks for your response! I had read that article earlier and changed the slashes in my build.properties file but it hasn't resolved my error.

[Martijn Verburg]

And welcome to Javaranch Orby!

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

There's a file "bin/catalina-tasks.xml" in your Tomcat install; read the comments there and import the file. Otherwise the tasks themselves are in server/lib/catalina-ant.jar, so you need to add that to your classpath, and possibly other jars as well.