AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Weblogic/IntelliJ/Ant conflict?          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.java.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Charles Tryon Guest Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:41 am    Post subject: Weblogic/IntelliJ/Ant conflict? I've been hunting all over the place for this one and have come up empty... I have been using IntelliJ IDEA v4.x to build a BEA/Weblogic (v8.1) Web services application, and found that it works very well. I have a large ANT task (build.xml) which defines various build and deploy tasks. Some of the tasks use BEA specific extensions (taskdef tags) to build various components. The way I've found to get this to work is to include the weblogic and webservices JAR files in the "Additional Classes" tab on the build preferences. Life is wonderful. Life is grand. Then I upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 5.0.3. *BOOM* Everything in IntelliJ works just fine, except that any and all ANT tasks immediately exit with a "success" status with no explaination as to what they may or may have done. No error logs or anything. I finally trace it back to the webservices.jar file which contains the required classes for the taskref definition. If I take this jar file out, it runs ANT, but fails with a "Class not found" error. If I put it back in, it just exits. Note that this is NOT a problem in the older IntelliJ 4.x (or even in some of the EAP builds between 4 and 5). Any idea what might be going on, and how I might be able to get around this problem in IntelliJ? Back to top Brandon McCombs Guest Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:44 am    Post subject: Re: Weblogic/IntelliJ/Ant conflict? Charles Tryon wrote: Quote: I've been hunting all over the place for this one and have come up empty... I have been using IntelliJ IDEA v4.x to build a BEA/Weblogic (v8.1) Web services application, and found that it works very well. I have a large ANT task (build.xml) which defines various build and deploy tasks. Some of the tasks use BEA specific extensions (taskdef tags) to build various components. The way I've found to get this to work is to include the weblogic and webservices JAR files in the "Additional Classes" tab on the build preferences. Life is wonderful. Life is grand. Then I upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 5.0.3. *BOOM* Everything in IntelliJ works just fine, except that any and all ANT tasks immediately exit with a "success" status with no explaination as to what they may or may have done. No error logs or anything. I finally trace it back to the webservices.jar file which contains the required classes for the taskref definition. If I take this jar file out, it runs ANT, but fails with a "Class not found" error. If I put it back in, it just exits. Note that this is NOT a problem in the older IntelliJ 4.x (or even in some of the EAP builds between 4 and 5). Any idea what might be going on, and how I might be able to get around this problem in IntelliJ? Did you pay for support for intelliJ? Back to top Charles Tryon Guest Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:40 am    Post subject: Re: Weblogic/IntelliJ/Ant conflict? Brandon McCombs wrote: Quote: Charles Tryon wrote: I've been hunting all over the place for this one and have come up empty... I have been using IntelliJ IDEA v4.x to build a BEA/Weblogic (v8.1) Web services application, and found that it works very well. I have a large ANT task (build.xml) which defines various build and deploy tasks. Some of the tasks use BEA specific extensions (taskdef tags) to build various components. The way I've found to get this to work is to include the weblogic and webservices JAR files in the "Additional Classes" tab on the build preferences. Life is wonderful. Life is grand. Then I upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 5.0.3. *BOOM* Everything in IntelliJ works just fine, except that any and all ANT tasks immediately exit with a "success" status with no explaination as to what they may or may have done. No error logs or anything. I finally trace it back to the webservices.jar file which contains the required classes for the taskref definition. If I take this jar file out, it runs ANT, but fails with a "Class not found" error. If I put it back in, it just exits. Note that this is NOT a problem in the older IntelliJ 4.x (or even in some of the EAP builds between 4 and 5). Any idea what might be going on, and how I might be able to get around this problem in IntelliJ? Did you pay for support for intelliJ? yes Their help has been.... less than helpful so far. I will check with them however. Back to top Charles Tryon Guest Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Weblogic/IntelliJ/Ant conflict? Eric, Thanks -- I haven't tried this yet, but you've filled in some holes in what I was trying to do but couldn't figure out. You are absolutely correct about the command line, but unfortunately, I inherited this very big and complex project, so I'm not always able to do what I would LIKE to do. I *DID* get a reply from IntelliJ, and I wanted to share it here as it sheds more light on the situation: = = = = = = = = = = = It's a well known problem. Ant 1.6 is not compatible with Ant 1.5 taskdefs defined in optional.jar file. For some unknown reason the optional taskdefs from Ant 1.5 optional.jar are included into weblogic.jar and it leads to the problem. Workarounds: - Configure your build to run under Ant 1.5 - Delete Ant 1.5 optional taskdef packages from the jars which are in the Ant's classpath See comments to this issue: http://jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-4317 = = = = = = = = = = = So, I'm not sure if I have a solution yet, but I know better what is going on, and I have a couple of things to try. Thanks to all! EricF wrote: Quote: In article <uKnmf.14732$ME5.11157 (AT) twister (DOT) nyroc.rr.com>, Charles Tryon <chucktryon (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: I've been hunting all over the place for this one and have come up empty... I have been using IntelliJ IDEA v4.x to build a BEA/Weblogic (v8.1) Web services application, and found that it works very well. I have a large ANT task (build.xml) which defines various build and deploy tasks. Some of the tasks use BEA specific extensions (taskdef tags) to build various components. The way I've found to get this to work is to include the weblogic and webservices JAR files in the "Additional Classes" tab on the build preferences. Life is wonderful. Life is grand. Then I upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 5.0.3. *BOOM* Everything in IntelliJ works just fine, except that any and all ANT tasks immediately exit with a "success" status with no explaination as to what they may or may have done. No error logs or anything. I finally trace it back to the webservices.jar file which contains the required classes for the taskref definition. If I take this jar file out, it runs ANT, but fails with a "Class not found" error. If I put it back in, it just exits. Note that this is NOT a problem in the older IntelliJ 4.x (or even in some of the EAP builds between 4 and 5). Any idea what might be going on, and how I might be able to get around this problem in IntelliJ? This is not so much an Intellij issue (great IDE), it's an Ant issue. I think. BEA has their own version of Ant that have the BEA tags defined. (Functionally they work that way - I've never really looked at them). You might be able to replace the ant that Intellij provides with BEA's. I don't typically use ant in Idea to do my build's - but there is an option to not use the bundled ant. Personally I don't like being tied to BEA's ant. So in my build files, I have the taskdefs I need. It sounds like you may be doing this but here's my servicegen definition as an example ... !-- Define the WL servicegen task -- taskdef name="servicegen" classpathref="weblogic.webservices.classpath" classname="weblogic.ant.taskdefs.webservices.servicegen.ServiceGenTask" / The weblogic.webservices.classpath points to weblogic.jar and webservices,jar, as well as the jdk tools.jar ... !--classpath for web service tasks -- path id="weblogic.webservices.classpath" fileset dir="${wl.home}/lib" include name="*.jar"/ /fileset pathelement location="${java.home}/lib/tools.jar"/ /path This works fine for me - but I do my builds from the command line. I suspect you'd be better off defining the weblogic specific jars in the build.xml file instead of the Ide build preferences. But I may be wrong. And note that tools.jar is in the classpath. Hopefully I've given enough tips that you can figure out the problem. Some advice: Get a build script that works from the command line. Once that is done, I would think you could run the same script from Idea. 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