Re: [HtmlUnit] Jelly jar missing

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Mike Bresnahan wrote:
 > I have encountered problems building the latest HtmlUnit sources.
 > Apparently, a jar file containing the Apache Commons Jelly project is
 > missing. See below.

You'll find that more than just the jelly jar file is missing.  If you 
delete the "com/gargoylesoftware/htmlunit/jelly" directory in the source 
then everything else will compile fine.  The jelly package is still 
considered "experimental".  [For those who are curious, that package 
includes initial support for xml wrappers for HtmlUnit - be warned that 
these are untested and unsupported and will likely change]

I'm moving towards using maven (http://maven.apache.org) to build the 
source instead of ant.  In the maven model, dependant jars are 
automatically downloaded from a central repository as needed instead of 
being stored in source control.  At present, if you want to build 
everything *including* the new jelly package, the easiest way is to use 
maven.  I am planning to change the ant build.xml file so that it will 
continue to work with the new model but I haven't got that far yet which 
is why your build is failing.

So to summarize....  To compile right now, your options are:

1) Download maven and use that to build.  Once you've invoked maven 
once, the ant build file will start working again as all the requisite 
jars will have been downloaded.

2) Delete the jelly package and build using ant as before.

I realize this is inconvenient - sorry.

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