I was building an Ant build file that worked properly in my eclipse project but not on our Jenkins autobuild set-up. I installed ant on my computer and ran the build from the console. It worked, but I realized it didn't use the junit-4.10.jar in my project lib like I wished but the junit.jar in the ant lib. After renaming the junit.jar files in my ant lib, the ant build didn't work.
So basically the problem in our Jenkins autobuild setup is that there are no junit.jar in its own ant lib directory. Can I specify the junit task to use the jar in my project lib instead of the one in the ant lib?
EDIT : I have modified my build.xml file and now it looks like this, still doesnt work. My junit-4.10.jar is in the /war/WEB-INF/lib/test directory :
<project name="vlp" default="junit" basedir=".">
<tstamp />
<!-- ################# PROPERTIES ################ -->
<!-- directory properties -->
<!-- source -->
<property name="vlp.src" location="src" />
<property name="vlp.test" location="test" />
<!-- build -->
<property name="src.build" location="bin/src" />
<property name="test.build" location="bin/test" />
<!-- libraries -->
<property name="vlp.lib.dir" location="war/WEB-INF/lib" />
<property name="vlp.testlib.dir" location="war/WEB-INF/lib/test" />
<!-- compile classpath -->
<path id="compile.path">
<fileset dir="${vlp.lib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />
</path>
<!-- test classpath -->
<path id="test.path">
<fileset dir="${vlp.testlib.dir}" includes="*.jar" />
<path refid="compile.path" />
</path>
<!-- ############### CLEANING ################## -->
<!-- Cleaning old compile files -->
<target name="clean" description="Clean all the old build files.">
<delete dir="${src.build}" />
<delete dir="${dist}" />
</target>
<!-- ############## COMPILATION ############### -->
<!-- Compile source -->
<target name="src.compile" depends="clean" description="Compile the source code when everything has been cleaned.">
<mkdir dir="${src.build}" />
<javac encoding="utf-8" destdir="${src.build}" nowarn="true">
<src path="${vlp.src}" />
<classpath refid="compile.path" />
</javac>
</target>
<!-- Compile test -->
<target name="test.compile" depends="clean" description="Compile the source code when everything has been cleaned.">
<mkdir dir="${test.build}" />
<javac encoding="utf-8" destdir="${test.build}" nowarn="true">
<src path="${vlp.test}" />
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${src.build}" />
<path refid="test.path" />
</classpath>
</javac>
</target>
<!-- ########### RUNS JUNIT TEST ############ -->
<target name="junit" depends="src.compile,test.compile" description="Runs all the unit test in the application. Does not halt build if test are failed.">
<junit printsummary="on" haltonfailure="false" showoutput="true">
<formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${test.build}" />
<path refid="test.path" />
</classpath>
<batchtest>
<fileset dir="${vlp.test}">
<include name="**/Test*.java" />
<exclude name="**/AllTests.java" />
</fileset>
</batchtest>
</junit>
</target>
</project>
EDIT : Simlar question can be found here with a different answer that works well. Note that it is much easier to install ant-junit on the machine than to try to add it to your libs and everything.
