Ant mxmlc

Hey guys.
I am compiling the flex application with Ant mxmlc on top of
Flex2 with java 5 and getting
Unable to run mxmlc:
flex2.tools.Compiler.mxmlc([Ljava.lang.String;)
Please help me out.

mnake sure to include a jar and a taskdefinition correctly
there is quite detail instroctions on labs.adobe.com search for
flex tasks.

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