Problem running cactus from ant

Hi,
I'm just getting going with using Cactus to test a J2EE project. I've
built my cactified .war and deployed the .ear. I can run a simple test
successfully using the ServletRunner on the server, but if I try to
invoke the same test from the cactus task in ant, I get a
ClassNotFoundException:

Buildfile: c:\home\ijd\projects2\vrmm-apps-phm\build.xml
run-cactus:
   [cactus]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
   [cactus] Running tests against JBossGeneric @ http://localhost:8088
   [cactus]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
   [cactus] Running com.hp.vrmm.station.StationInfoFacadeBeanTest
   [cactus] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0 sec
   [cactus] Testsuite: com.hp.vrmm.station.StationInfoFacadeBeanTest
   [cactus] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0 sec
   [cactus] Caused an ERROR
   [cactus] com.hp.vrmm.station.StationInfoFacadeBeanTest
   [cactus] java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
com.hp.vrmm.station.StationInfoFacadeBeanTest
   [cactus] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
   [cactus] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native
Method)
   [cactus] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
   [cactus] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
   [cactus] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown
Source)
   [cactus] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
   [cactus] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
   [cactus] at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
   [cactus] at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)

BUILD FAILED
C:\home\ijd\projects2\vrmm-apps-phm\build.xml:61: Test
com.hp.vrmm.station.StationInfoFacadeBeanTest failed

Total time: 2 seconds


The named class is present under WEB-INF/classes in the cactified .war,
and, indeed, is invoked from the servlet test runner. My cactus task
looks like this:

  <target name="run-cactus">
      <cactus earfile="${build.dir}/test-${ear.name}" fork="yes"
              printsummary="yes" haltonerror="true"
haltonfailure="false">
        <containerset>
          <generic name="JBossGeneric" port="8088">
            <startup target="generic.jboss.deploy"/>
            <shutdown target="generic.jboss.undeploy"/>
          </generic>
        </containerset>
        <formatter type="plain" usefile="false"/>
        <test name="com.hp.vrmm.station.StationInfoFacadeBeanTest" />
      </cactus>
  </target>

Following the advice of another posting on this list, I'm using a
generic server description to deploy to JBoss 4.0.3SP1.  The rest of my
environment is: Ant 1.6.5, jakarta-cactus-13-1.7.2 and JDK 1.5.0-06.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Ian

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Ian Dickinson    HP Labs, Bristol, UK    Semantic & Adaptive Systems
Dept
http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/Ian_Dickinson
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