Hi, While I was looking at issue 58086 I found that o.a.c.ant.DeployTask depends on o.a.tomcat.util.* java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/util/buf/B2CConverter at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask.execute(DeployTask.java:195) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:392) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:413) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:811) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.B2CConverter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) ... 19 more According to the documentation one needs only catalina-ant.jar [1] "Copy the file server/lib/catalina-ant.jar from your Tomcat installation into Ant's library directory ($ANT_HOME/lib)." Is this a packaging issue or a documentation issue? Regards, Violeta [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Executing_Manager_Commands_With_Ant
I'd say documentation.
I'd say that the recommended way to enable those tasks in Ant is to use one of the following: a) bin/catalina-tasks.xml from usual Tomcat 7.0.x distribution b) build.xml from Tomcat 7.0.x deployer distribution Both import all *.jars.
Fixed to use importing bin/catalina-tasks.xml in trunk, 8.0.x (for 8.0.25 onwards), 7.0.x (for 7.0.64 onwards) and 6.0.x (for 6.0.45 onwards).