[Webtest] newbie question - getting Canoo working

[Matt Raible]

You need to use Ant 1.5.4 unless you want to patch it yourself.

Matt

On Jan 26, 2004, at 3:29 PM, lisa.crispin@att.net wrote:

> 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
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