Commons logging not loading into Ant when using Beanshell

[Mike Mootin]

I am using a

<script language="beanshell">

tag in my ant build (1.7.1), and am executing it from within Eclipse. I have it set to "use same JRE as workspace". When Ant goes to execute the beanshell script, I am getting the error "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory". However I can clearly see that Ant is on the classpath (see attachment).

I have also tried moving the jar into ANT_HOME/lib and get the same results. Using

<echo message="${java.class.path}"/>

give "C:\ganymede2\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20081125.jar" - not at all useful of course.

What's strange is that when I execute Ant using a separate JRE (instead of the workspace one), Ant is able to load the commons logging class, but then I run into other problems related to eclipse compiler-related stuff not being on the classpath.

I recently upgraded to using Java 1.6, so thought it might be related. However, switching back to 1.5 doesn't make any difference.

[David Newton]

IIRC you need to set the classpath inside Ant, either in the build file, or in the Ant Eclipse setup (I could be way off base on this though).

Having Ant on the classpath, as you state you have, isn't relevant; that's not the error you're getting.