Exception starting server when using wlserver Ant task

Question

Hello All:
When attempting to start my server using the wlserver Ant task, i receive the following error:
[wlserver] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/Server
[wlserver] Exception in thread "main"
[wlserver] Error in server execution
my snippet is as follows:
<target name="start-server">
<wlserver beahome="C:\bea" weblogichome="c:\bea\weblogic81" host="localhost"
                    port="7001" username="weblogic" domainname="mydomain" password="weblogic"
                    servername="myserver" action="start"/>
</target>
It seems as if it should work fine. Anybody have any solutions? Thanks in advance.
Ricky

Answer 1

Ricky,
You have to add the weblogic JARs to the classpath of the wlserver task.
add something similar to the following (bold text are additions):
<path id="classpath.weblogic">
<fileset dir="c:/bea/weblogic81/server/lib">
<include name="weblogic_sp.jar" />
<include name="weblogic.jar" />
<include name="webserviceclient.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
<target name="start-server">
<wlserver beahome="C:\bea" weblogichome="c:\bea\weblogic81" host="localhost"
port="7001" username="weblogic" domainname="mydomain" password="weblogic"
servername="myserver" action="start" classpathref="classpath.weblogic"/>
</target>
--Peter