Configuring ant to run unit tests. Where should libraries be? How should classpath be configured? avoiding ZipException

Question

I\'m trying to run my junit tests using ant. The tests are kicked off using a JUnit 4 test suite. If I run this direct from Eclipse the tests complete without error. However i

Answer 1

This error is caused specifically because the class path contains explicit references to one or more [files] that are not JAR's. The reference to "error in opening zip file" is of course that a JAR is in effect a ZIP file where as other files [JUNIT] has found like class files are not and as such do not have a zip format. So the class path should contain only explicit references to JAR [files] and/or the names of the [directories] where other resources like class files are to be found.

So when building up your class path (in ANT) use:

           :one for each of the [directories] where class files, log4j property files and other resources etc are to be found
                       :to describe all the explicit JAR [files] that need to be on the class path.

where

or

NOTE: When using wild cards like [**/*] in you need to make sure the wild card is not matching files that are not JAR files