[Webtest] newbie question - getting Canoo working

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:29:06 +0000

This is my third attempt in the past several months to use Canoo.  I 
apologize for my sporadic postings.  I can never get it to work.  Maybe the 
third time is the charm.

I learned in the past that I must put every jar file for and and webtest into 
my classpath and I have done this.  I have installed ant 1.6.0.  (Is this 
bad?  I saw a posting about a problem with ant 1.6.0 but no response to it.  
I copied the ant.jar from $WEBTESTHOME/lib over to $ANT_HOME/lib).

I'm getting this error:
$ ant -buildfile installTest.xml
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:214)
        at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:90)

Needless to say, I'm not a Java programmer so this means nothing to me.  
Please help.

Is there ANY documentation on how to install Canoo and get it running, other 
than what is on the main Canoo Webtest site?  It is certainly not enough for 
people like myself.  Is it the case that if I can't guess how to install it, 
I shouldn't try to use it?  I hope not.  Or am I just missing some obvious 
simple documentation somewhere?  This would be nice.
thanks,
Lisa