Accessing ant libraries from a project

[ovidiu.feodorov]

I need to extend an ant class (org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.XMLJUnitResultFormatter) so I need to access the build system's ant.jar and ant-junit.jar from my project.

This is how I am currently doing it:

 <pathelement path="${module.root}/../../tools/lib/ant.jar"/>
 <pathelement path="${module.root}/../../tools/lib/ant-junit.jar"/>

Is this OK, or there is a more portable way to do the same thing?

[ryan.campbell]

I guess javac's includeAntRuntime didn't work? Did you try compliing without altering the classpath first?

Otherwise, you would ideally use the ${apache.ant.classpath} from thirdparty/libraries.ent. Ruel, how do we add additional jars to this ant classpath since it doesn't come from build/build-thirdparty.xml?

[ovidiu.feodorov]

No, includeAntRuntime does the trick. No need to include ant jars by hand. Thanks.