JAVA + ANT = JARs problems

Question

Hi ppl, I have one problem and hope that someone could help me, let's go...
I use ant to build a project, I have more than one JAR and they use each other... Well all Jars are in the same directory and I need to change It. I must put one JAR, the main one, on other specific folder. But the others must remain in the same directory. Ex:
C:\View\View.JAR
C:\View\Support.JAR
C:\Main\Main.JAR
I suppose that my problema is with the classpath, I don't have any environment variable seted on windows, I just use the ones on eclipse. When I build my project I tried to pass the C:\Main\Main.JAR in my Ant's xml, But it doesn't work.
See the code :
Nowaday
<property name="classpathOutros" value="Main.jar"/>
//I tried:
<property name="classpathOutros" value="c:\Main\Main.jar"/>The JAR code
   <target name="GIXPDV" depends="COMPILE">
         <jar destfile="${distDir}/VIEW.JAR" basedir="${buildDir}" includes="myPackage/venda/**">
            <manifest>
               <attribute name="Built-By" value="${user.name}" />
               <attribute name="Main-Class" value="myPackage.venda.FrmVenda" />
               <attribute name="Class-Path" value="${classpathOutros}" />
            </manifest>
         </jar>
      </target>myPackage.venda.FrmVenda --- > This one is inside my View.JAR .... but it must access some classes in Main.jar.
I hope that you understand the problem, sorry for the bad English..... I'm working on it.... lol
Edited by: Matheus.Omega.Mendes on Apr 25, 2008 7:41 AM

Answer 1

What do you meaning with "Circular references" ?In this case it would mean that you have the following 4 classes: A, B, C, D.
In your Main jar it has A and D
In one of your second jars it has B and C.
Then B (2nd) relies on A (main)
Then D (main) relies on C (2nd)
Other than that, and excluding any eclipse magic, the fact that you are building jars and posting them to certain dirs doesn't need to matter. During the build rather than relying on jars, just rely on a class path with classes not jars.