[TriLUG] Ant is broken now..

[Brian Henning]

Hey,
  Anyone out there with strong ant experience?  When I downloaded it some
time ago to build a particular package, it worked beautifully.  Now, for
some reason I'm having difficulty tracking down, ant won't run (building the
same package as when it worked properly); it terminates very prematurely
with the following stack trace:

java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.tools.ant.Main
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:293)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:195)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:55)

To the best of my knowledge, the environment variables haven't changed since
the last successful operation of ant.  I have installed a few extension
libraries such as Xerces and JDOM..  Could there be some sort of conflict
caused by one of these jars?  I'm really at a loss here, and need to be able
to have ant work..

TIA,
~Brian Henning

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