Hi Mark, Thanks for the help using the 1.5 jdk worked.
Could the building instructions be updated or would jdk 1.6 work for build.xml just not extras.xml? http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/building.html >>Download a Java Development Kit (JDK) release (version 1.5.x or later) Fu-Tung --- On Tue, 8/5/08, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ant download - failed > To: "Tomcat Developers List" <dev@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 8:26 AM > Fu-Tung Cheng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am just trying to build tomcat for the first time. > I have jdk 1.6.0.03-b05 and ant 1.7.0 and I am using the > source download 6.0.18. This is on windows xp. > > You can't build Tomcat on a 1.6 JDK due to a dbcp > incompatibility (to be > fair to commons, Sun broke the API). If you use a 1.5 JDK > you'll be fine. > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]