Weblogic.ejbc wants weblogic.home sysproperty in ant - why

Question

I found that I had to add the following 'sysproperty' line to an ant target which
runs weblogic.ejbc:
<target name="ejbjar" depends="jar">
<mkdir dir="${java.class.dir}/${package.dir}/tmp"/>
<java classname="weblogic.ejbc" fork="true" failonerror="true">
<sysproperty key="weblogic.home" value="c:/bea70/weblogic700/server"/>
<classpath>
<path refid="classpathWL"/>
</classpath>
<arg line="${java.class.dir}/${archive}.jar ${java.class.dir}/ejb-${archive}.jar"/>
</java>
</target>
If the line is not there I get an error:
[java] ERROR: Error from ejbc: error in finding weblogic.Home
If the line is there and points to an invalid weblogic.home directory the error is:
[java] ERROR: Error from ejbc: Installation file c:\temp\lib\persistence\persistence.install
does not exist. Could not initialize EJB container managed persistence.
However the file contains only one line:
WebLogic_CMP_RDBMS.xml.
Question: is there a way to specify this value directly to weblogic.ejbc without
the look-up to the file? In my case I would like to do a build on a machine where
weblogic is not installed (but of course weblogic.jar is available). It is trivial
to add the file to the FS somewhere but why bother?

Answer 1

here is my Ant target looks like...
<property name="classpath" value="${lib.ext.dir}/j2ee12.jar;${lib.ext.dir}/weblogic.jar;${lib.ext.dir}/log4j-1.2.9.jar;${lib.ext.dir}/struts.jar;${dest.dir}/${ant.project.name}.jar"/>
<target name="testjar">
<javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${ejbc.dir}" classpath="${classpath}"/>
<ejbjar srcdir="${dest.dir}" descriptordir="${desc.dir}" basejarname="test" classpath="${classpath}">
<weblogic destdir="${lib.dir}" classpath="${classpath}" oldCMP="false"/>
<include name="**/ejb-jar.xml" />
<exclude name="**/weblogic*.xml" />
<dtd publicid="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" location="${lib.dir}/dtd/ejb20-jar.dtd"/>
<dtd publicid="-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 6.0.0 EJB//EN" location="${lib.dir}/dtd/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd"/>
</ejbjar>
</target>
I a not sure where to specify <sysproperty....>
Please revert back if u know the answer.