Moin Ramy,
I'll guess your are trying to build from the command line.
Ant has to load some classes from the woproject.jar and cayenne.jar.
You have to downoad woproject.
http://objectstyle.org/woproject/compatibilty_matrix.html
Just drop woproject.jar and cayenne.jar into $ant_home/lib.
Ulrich
Am 24.03.2005 um 08:57 schrieb Ramy:
> Hi,
>
> i got a requirement to build my Web Object application using "Ant
> Builder" and i am using Ant of 1.6.2 version.
>
> While building WOApplication,Iam getting the following error.
>
> Could not create task or type of type: woapplication.
> Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon.
>
> This is common and has a number of causes; the usual
> solutions are to read the manual pages then download and
> install needed JAR files, or fix the build file:
> - You have misspelt 'woapplication'.
> Fix: check your spelling.
> - The task needs an external JAR file to execute
> and this is not found at the right place in the classpath.
> Fix: check the documentation for dependencies.
> Fix: declare the task.
> - The task is an Ant optional task and the JAR file and/or libraries
> implementing the functionality were not found at the time you
> yourself built your installation of Ant from the Ant sources.
> Fix: Look in the ANT_HOME/lib for the 'ant-' JAR corresponding to
> the
> task and make sure it contains more than merely a
> META-INF/MANIFEST.MF.
> If all it contains is the manifest, then rebuild Ant with the
> needed
> libraries present in ${ant.home}/lib/optional/ , or alternatively,
> download a pre-built release version from apache.org
> - The build file was written for a later version of Ant
> Fix: upgrade to at least the latest release version of Ant
> - The task is not an Ant core or optional task
> and needs to be declared using <taskdef>.
> - You are attempting to use a task defined using
> <presetdef> or <macrodef> but have spelt wrong or not
> defined it at the point of use
>
> Remember that for JAR files to be visible to Ant tasks implemented
> in ANT_HOME/lib, the files must be in the same directory or on the
> classpath
>
> Please neither file bug reports on this problem, nor email the
> Ant mailing lists, until all of these causes have been explored,
>
> May i know the exact reason for this.
>
> with regards,
>
> Ramy.
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