(I spent quite a few hours fighting this one, so hopefully Google will help
others find this page…) After toying around with maven a bit, I discovered
that none of my ant tasks would run. I hadn’t made any changes to anything in
$ANT_HOME, but all of sudden things broke. What I had done without thinking
about it was to place woproject.jar in /Library/Java/Extensions. This jar
contains the classes to create a few Ant task definitions. So here’s the
rule…
Never place jars that are necessary for Ant task definitions in your Java classpath (
/System/Library/Java/Extensions,/Library/Java/Extensions/,~/Library/Java/Extensions)
The problem is that Java tries to load these jars before it has loaded the Ant
jars that they rely on. These jars that contain task definitions should either
be placed in the Ant classpath ($ANT_HOME/lib, ~/.ant/lib) or in your
project’s lib directory and referenced directly using the classpath attribute
of the taskdef.