WebLogic 10 Ant Tasks Location

I frequently see people asking about where the JAR is that has the Ant tasks defined for WebLogic, such as weblogic.ant.taskdefs.management.WLDeploy

If you get an Ant error like this:
taskdef class weblogic.ant.taskdefs.management.WLDeploy cannot be found
here is how to fix it.

If you installed WebLogic in the default location, then the location of this and many other useful JARs to have on your classpath is /root/bea/wlserver_10.0/server/lib

If your "Deploy to WebLogic" Ant tasks (or like that) are failing, you can put this in Ant's classpath. On Eclipse you do that this way: Window > Preferences > Ant > Runtime > Classpath > Global Entries then Add External JARs.

If you run a jar -tf weblogic.jar | less, you can browse through them, but this is a lot of items, so you can also  just output the contents to a file:

> jar -tf weblogic.jar > /home/ehewitt/WEBLOGICJAR.txt

But that  is a huge file. Limit the output to listing only the Ant task definitions in  that  weblgoic.jar:

> jar -tf weblogic.jar | grep "weblogic/ant/taskdefs*" > /home/ehewitt/WeblogicJarAntTasks.txt

That produces 93 items for WebLogic 10.0, including our WLDeploy.class.

Comments

[Anil Kumar]

An excellent solution which helped in saving a lot of time for my project and resolved an issue which is pending in my project from a long time.Thanks a lot for your solution

[mahesh Sirikonda]

Thanks It helped me alot

[Karthika]

I am getting the error below:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: weblogic/utils/NestedException

i am trying to build an ejb jar for Weblogic 10, using Ant in Eclipse. This seems to be becuase the older weblogic jar had an "weblogic/utils/NestedException", but the Weblogic10 jar has a class "weblogic/auddi/NestedException".
I tried using the Ant in the Weblogic 10 folder also, with no success.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

[huangjianhui]

haha,
i know how to do.