Classpath for taskdef?

ant classpath taskdef

computealot · Dec 22, 2010 · Viewed 22.1k times · Source

I am defining a new task in Ant. I exported it as a jar and added to my buildfile:

<taskdef classname="X" classpath="Y.jar"/>

The problem is that this fails at runtime. It tells me it didn't find the class. By adding the jar to the classpath, it is corrected.

My question is: Is there a way that I can refer to my jar from the Ant buildfile, without changing the classpath?

Answer

If you know the path of your jar, inside ant script you can define the classpath for your own task.

<taskdef name="myTaskName" classname="com.myorg.myclass">
  <classpath>
    <pathelement location="pathToMyJar.jar"/>
  </classpath>
</taskdef>