ant task produces java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/m

[teknokrat]

When I run the wsconsume ant task it produces the error

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/mirror/apt/AnnotationProcessorFactory

I can get rid of this by referencing tools.jar in the classpath, but why is this necessary? Whats happening here that the class is not being picked up anyway?

cheers

[heiko.braun]

Could you post the build file excerpt that defines the wsconsume task?

[rphadnis]

Can you ensure that the tools.jar for jdk 1.5 or higher is available in the classpath?

[teknokrat]

The relevant build.xml fragment is

 <path id="class.path">
 <fileset dir=".">
 <include name="jbossws-client.jar"/>
 <include name="getopt.jar"/>
 <include name="jbossws-wsconsume-impl.jar"/>
 <include name="jaxb-xjc.jar"/>
 <include name="jaxb-impl.jar"/>
 </fileset>
 </path>

 <target name="wsgenerate" description="">
 <taskdef
 name="wsconsume"
 classname="org.jboss.ws.tools.jaxws.ant.wsconsume"
 classpathref="class.path"
 />
 <wsconsume
 fork="true"
 verbose="true"
 destdir="bin"
 sourcedestdir="src"
 keep="true"
 wsdllocation="META-INF/wsdl/MyService.wsdl"
 wsdl="MyService.wsdl"
 package="my.ws">
 <binding dir="." includes="bindings.xml"/>
 </wsconsume>
 </target>

When I add tools.jar to the classpath, this works OK. But why can't it find tools.jar anyway as its being executed by the jvm anyway?