Error from using ANT program, need help, Thanks

Question

Hello,
I tried to run J2ee tutorial sample code. Following the instruction, I tried to ues ant to build a sample ConverterAPP but get some error message. I would preciate if somebody could give me some help.
Thanks.
Hui Lu
[email protected]
Following is the command I entered from an CMD window and the exception I got:
C:\j2sdkee1.3\j2eetutorial\examples\src>ant converter
***Warning: I am here start runAnt.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Connectors\classes;C:
\javacode\classes;C:\eGate\client\classes;C:\eGate\client\classes\egate/jar;C:\eGate\client\JRE\1/1/7B\lib\rt/jar;C:\PROGRA~1\MQSeries\java\lib\COMIBM~2/JAR;C:\
PROGRA~\MQSeries\java\lib\COMIBM~1/JAR;C:\PROGRA~\MQSeries\java\lib\COMIBM~3/JAR;C:\PROGRA~\MQSeries\tools\javaclnt\samples\en_us;
Warning: I am here end runAnt.
Following is the command line in the batch file which raised Exception
C:\jdk1.3.1_01\bin\java -classpath "C:\jdk1.3.1_01\lib\tools.jar";"C:\j2sdkee1.3\jakarta-ant-1.3\lib\parser.jar";"C:\j2sdkee1.3\jakarta-ant-1.3\lib\jaxp.jar";"C:\j2sdkee1.3\jakarta-ant-1.3\lib\ant.jar";C:\javacode\classes;C:\j2sdkee1.3\jaka
rta-ant-1.3\bin;C:\j2sdkee1.3\bin;C:\jdk1.3.1_01\bin;C:\IBMCON~\CICS\Classes\CTGCLI~1.JAR;C:\IBMConnectors\classes;C:\javacode\classes;C:\eGate\client\classes;C:\eGate\client\classes\egate.jar;C:\eGate\client\JRE\1.1.7B\lib\rt.jar;C:\PROGRA~\MQSeries\java\lib\COMIBM~2.JAR;C:\PROGRA~\MQSeries\java\lib\COMIBM~1.JAR;C:\PROGRA~\MQSeries\java\lib\COMIBM~3.JAR;C:\PROGRA~\MQSeries\tools\javaclnt\samples\en_us;
-Dant.home="C:\j2sdkee1.3\jakarta-ant-1.3" org.apache.tools.ant.Ma
in converter
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Answer 1

Obviously you have the IBM java tools installed on your PC, and your classpath starts with IBM Connectors\...
What you need to do is to edit your classpath environment variable in control panel->systems, and use quotation marks for any long directory/file names, or directory names with spaces in them. For example, change C:\IBM Connectors\classes to "C:\IBM Connectors\classes". Then it will work.