ant command showing error while execution : resource axis-tasks.properties could not be found

Question

Problem in running ant showing error Could not load definitions from resource axis-tasks.properties. It could not be found :

Here is the snapshot of build.xml on which the problem occurs

 <target name="axis" depends="prepare">
      <taskdef resource="axis-tasks.properties"/> 

      <axis-wsdl2java url="${webconsole.base}/src/myservice.wsdl"
            output="${axis.output}">
        <mapping
            namespace="urn:myservice"
            package="com.company.service" />
        <mapping
            namespace="http://webserviceurl.com"
            package="com.company.service" />
      </axis-wsdl2java>
    </target>

When running ant shows following errors :

/build.xml:76: Problem: failed to create task or type axis-wsdl2java
Cause: The name is undefined.
Action: Check the spelling.
Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared.
Action: Check that any <presetdef>/<macrodef> declarations have taken place.

Environment properties :

export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
export RELEASE=$HOME/Release
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/current
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant-1.6.5
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH

Additional information

Actually, we have two build machines. First one has only root user and we have created /home/user folders manually e.g. /home/rajan etc. In this machine when we run ant as root from /home/rajan/R7_SP1_UTF8/vermaraj_R7_SP1/vobs/project/ip_src/AdminWebConsole ant works properly.

echo $PATH = /usr/java/current/bin:/usr/local/apache-ant-1.6.5/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

On the second machine, we have created individual user accounts and when we try and run ant either as root or rajan from /home/rajan/R7_SP1_UTF8/vermaraj_R7_SP1/vobs/project/ip_src/AdminWebConsole ant does not works properly.

echo $PATH : /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

Also, in both the build machines echo $CLASSPATH is empty

locate axis-ant.jar gives output as :

1. /home/Rajan/R7_SP1_UTF8/vermaraj_R7_SP1/vobs/project/ip_src/AdminWebConsole/lib/axis-ant.jar
2. /home/Rajan/R7_SP1_UTF8/vermaraj_R7_SP1/vobs/project/ip_src/AdminWebConsole/output/war/WEB-INF/lib/axis-ant.jar
3. /usr/local/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib/axis-ant.jar

ivy is not an option as this is part of very big code base, it may create problems if we add additional libraries.

Answer 1

The ANT task does appear to have a complex set of dependencies. I would recommend adding the ivy extension to manage these.

Example

├── build.xml
├── src
│   └── myservice.wsdl
└── target
    └── output
        └── com
            └── examples
                └── www
                    └── wsdl
                        └── HelloService_wsdl
                            ├── Hello_BindingStub.java
                            ├── Hello_PortType.java
                            ├── Hello_Service.java
                            └── Hello_ServiceLocator.java

build.xml

<project name="demo" default="axis" xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant">

    <!--
    ================
    Build properties
    ================
    -->
    <property name="build.dir"   location="target"/>
    <property name="axis.output" location="${build.dir}/output"/>

    <available classname="org.apache.ivy.Main" property="ivy.installed"/> 

    <!--
    ===========
    Targets
    ===========
    -->
    <target name="install-ivy" description="Install ivy" unless="ivy.installed">
        <mkdir dir="${user.home}/.ant/lib"/>
        <get dest="${user.home}/.ant/lib/ivy.jar" src="http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/ivy/ivy/2.3.0/ivy-2.3.0.jar"/>
        <fail message="Ivy has been installed. Run the build again"/>
    </target>

    <target name="resolve" depends="install-ivy" description="Use ivy to resolve classpaths">
        <ivy:cachepath pathid="build.path">
            <dependency org="org.apache.axis" name="axis-ant" rev="1.4" />
            <dependency org="org.apache.axis" name="axis" rev="1.4" />
            <dependency org="org.apache.axis" name="axis-jaxrpc" rev="1.4"/>
            <dependency org="commons-logging" name="commons-logging" rev="1.1.1" />
            <dependency org="commons-discovery" name="commons-discovery" rev="0.4" />
            <dependency org="wsdl4j" name="wsdl4j" rev="1.6.2" />
        </ivy:cachepath>
    </target>

    <target name="axis" depends="resolve" description="Run Axis task">
        <taskdef resource="axis-tasks.properties" classpathref="build.path"/> 

        <mkdir dir="${axis.output}"/>

        <axis-wsdl2java url="src/myservice.wsdl" output="${axis.output}">
            <mapping namespace="urn:myservice" package="com.company.service" />
            <mapping namespace="http://webserviceurl.com" package="com.company.service" />
        </axis-wsdl2java>
    </target>

    <target name="clean" description="Clean workspace">
        <delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
    </target>

    <target name="clean-all" depends="clean" description="Purge ivy cache">
        <ivy:cleancache/>
    </target>

</project>