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I downloaded Hibernate 3.1.2 and am trying to work my way through Day 1 of the "road map" for new users. So far, it isn't going too well.

I looked through the FAQs and didn't see my problem(s) and the alternate "getting started" document, Chapter 2 of Hibernate in Action, seems to be a dead link: I've tried it several times in the last few minutes but never get the page.

So here's my problem. Step 4 for Day 1 says:

from a command prompt in the install dir
- if you have Ant installed (and copied antlr.jar and junit.jar to ANT_HOME/lib), type ant eg
- if not, type build eg under Windows
- the example should run successfully

Well, I _do_ have Ant installed (1.6.5) and I have ant-antlr.jar and ant-junit.jar installed in its lib directory. I'm not sure if these are the same as antlr.jar and junit.jar or not. I do _not_ have antlr.jar or junit.jar in Ant's lib directory. Does this make a difference?

In any case, I tried both alternatives at a command prompt, assuming that the install dir was the one for Hibernate, not Ant. (I created a Hibernate directory on D: and extracted the zip file into it; the result was that I have a hibernate-3.1 directory within d:\Hibernate. I'm assuming that the 'install dir' is d:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1.)

When I tried 'ant eg' (minus the quotes), I got:
D:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1>ant eg
Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
D:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1\build.xml:116: taskdef A class needed by class org.ap
ache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask cannot be found: junit/framewor
k/Test

Total time: 2 seconds

When I tried 'build eg' (minus the quotes), I got:
D:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1>build eg

D:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1>java -cp "lib/ant-launcher-1.6.5.jar" org.apache.tool
s.ant.launch.Launcher -lib lib eg
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in D:\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\tools
.jar
Buildfile: build.xml
[taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource checkstyletask.properties.
It could not be found.
[taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource clovertasks. It could not b
e found.

eg:
[javac] Compiling 8 source files to D:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1\eg

BUILD FAILED
D:\Hibernate\hibernate-3.1\build.xml:695: Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK

Total time: 2 seconds

Contrary to the error message, my JAVA_HOME environment variable _does_ point to the JDK, it is: JAVA_HOME=D:\Java\jdk1.5.0_06


So, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Are ant-antlr.jar and ant-junit.jar reasonable substitutes for antlr.jar and junit.jar? If not, where can I find the correct jars and will they clash with ant-antlr.jar and ant-junit.jar when I put them in the same library? I'm really not sure what the differences are.

If those two jars aren't the problem, what do I need to do to get either of the approaches in Step 4 of Day 1 working?

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Rhino

If you want to save yourself the nightmare of environement variables and classpath management, use an IDE such as Eclipse or Netbeans. The have built-in ant support. Basically you'll only have to click on the ant target you want to execute.

If you want to stick to command line, with windows the common pitfalls I know are :
Sometimes you have to reboot after editing an environment variable
Sometimes you have reopen a new prompt after editing an environment variable
Beware of folders with space ex 'Document and settings'

scratch that.......just do as the instructions say...antlr-junit.jar != junit.jar ...there are about six chars different there.

the jars are in the hibernate lib directory; where else should they be ?