Ant vs JDev generated jar files

Question

I'm migrating the 10.1.3 BPEL sources to an automated build environment using ant. Almost all of my processes migrated seamlessly using the 10.1.0,.2 based build hierarchy, but one is choking. I can compile it fine but upon deployment it fails, even after bpelcclasspath updates. It has some local classes supporting the worklist API that JDev wraps up nicely but these are neglected by ant. I haven't been able to resolve these missing classes with any of the available ant arguments. For some reason I understood that JDev leveraged the ant system in 10.1.3 to perform its builds. I don't see how though. The compiler message shows:
C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\bin\java.exe -jar C:\JDEV10132\jdev\lib\ojc.jar -source 1.5 -target 1.5 -noquiet -warn -nowarn:320 -nowarn:486 -nowarn:487 -deprecation:self -nowarn:560 -nowarn:704 -nowarn:489 -nowarn:415 -nowarn:909 -nowarn:412 -nowarn:414 -nowarn:561 -nowarn:376 -nowarn:371 -nowarn:558 -nowarn:375 -nowarn:413 -nowarn:377 -nowarn:372 -nowarn:557 -nowarn:556 -nowarn:559 -encoding Cp1252 -g -d C:\JDEV10132\jdev\mywork\Common\BPELWorkList\output -make C:\JDEV10132\jdev\mywork\Common\BPELWorkList\output\BPELWorkList.cdi -classpath C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\lib\i18n.jar;C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\lib\sunrsasign.jar;C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\lib\jsse.jar;C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\lib\jce.jar;C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\lib\charsets.jar;C:\product\10.1.3\OracleAS_1\jdk\jre\classes;C:\JDEV10132\jdev\mywork\Common\BPELWorkList\output;C:\JDEV10132\integration\lib\bpm-infra.jar;C:\JDEV10132\integration\lib\bpm-services.jar -sourcepath C:\JDEV10132\jdev\mywork\Common\BPELWorkList\src C:\JDEV10132\jdev\mywork\Common\BPELWorkList\src\mypkg\TaskAssignee.java
You can see the mypkg elements in the JDev command. Comparing the jar files produced by the different utilities shows distinctly different products: Note the size difference:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 wzscqz root 264624 Apr 26 17:28 bpel_BPELWorkList_1.0.jar
-rw-rw-rw- 1 wzscqz root 6204184 Apr 26 17:25 bpel_BPELWorkList_v2007_04_26__62657.jar
The latter is JDev of course. When I look at the contents of the jar file I see that the BPEL-INF library is missing. Here is a snippet of the jar listing for the JDev version:
drwxrwxrwx 0 26-Apr-2007 17:24:18 BPEL-INF/lib/
-rw-rw-rw- 2150 26-Apr-2007 17:24:18 BPEL-INF/lib/bpelclasses.jar
-rw-rw-rw- 1409767 26-Apr-2007 17:24:18 BPEL-INF/lib/bpm-infra.jar
-rw-rw-rw- 4526876 26-Apr-2007 17:24:18 BPEL-INF/lib/bpm-services.jar
The private class file is located in bpelclasses.jar.
I've extracted this file and moved it to the BPEL PM (Solaris) and got the process to deploy and run correctly. I would like to resolve the build process though without this band-aid. Anyone know how I can resolve this missing components?

Answer 1

Hi JJ,
After reading your comments, i think i am really a new kid on the block. In the codes I inherit, there are some input text files which contain values to be read by the java files but I didnt include them in my ANT build script. The reason for this input files is to provide flexbility in changing values without the need to re-compile. what commands can I write to include these files during compile? when i build my jar file, how can i "zipped" these input files into my final jar file?
At the moment, this is what I wrote in my script.
<target name="MyTask.compile" description="Compiles the Task">
<mkdir dir="${MyTask.classes}"/>
<javac srcdir="${MyTask.src}" destdir="${MyTask.classes}"/>
</target>
<target name="MyTask.jar" description="JARs the Task" depends="MyTask.compile">
<jar destfile="${MyTask.dist}/MyTask.jar" basedir="${MyTask.classes}" >
               <manifest>
               <attribute name="Main-Class" value="Main"/>
               <attribute name="Class-Path" value="lib/lib /lib/ant.jar"/>
               </manifest>
</jar>
</target>
I tried to use javac to decompile the class files produced by ANT and NetBeans and they are the same. I compiled them using the same version of jdk. What do you mean by classpath?
Thanks.
Han