Ant FTP task - cannot create type

Question

Could someone help me with Ant? I want to deploy some files through FTP but i still can't due to error:

Could not create type ftp due to java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/net/ftp/FTPClientConfig

In ant lib directory I have:

• lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ant-bootstrap.jar -> ../../java/ant-bootstrap.jar
• lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ant-commons-net.jar -> ../../java/ant/ant-commons-net.jar
• lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ant.jar -> ../../java/ant.jar
• lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ant-launcher.jar -> ../../java/ant-launcher.jar
• lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root commons-net.jar -> /usr/share/java/commons-net.jar

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

If you use a Debian Linux distribution or Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi, you can simply solve this problem by running:

sudo apt-get install libcommons-net-java

Answer 2

In Eclipse:

Window > Preferences > Ant > Runtime > Classpath Tab > Ant Home Entries (Default) > Add External jars

   1.commons-net-2.0.jar

   2.oro-2.0.8.jar

It worked for me :)

Answer 3

I assume that you are using ant 1.8.

You need apache-commons-net-2.0.jar and jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar in the lib folder as listed in this blogpost and in the docs(Although the doc says 1.4 should be enough)