appbundle

[Terry Warren]

Hi -

I am trying to do something that I thought would be very simple: create a mac os x app bundle using the oracle appbundler-1.0.jar file. The project was created and built via Netbeans IDE with the appbundler jarfile copied into a directory named libs in the main project directory along with a simple .xml script based on the documentation for using the appbundler. I am using the latest oracle jdk for mac and mac os x version is 10.8.3. When I run the script (either via commandline after changing into the project directory) or via Netbeans IDE, it fails with the message:

taskdef A class needed by class com.oracle.appbundler.AppBundlerTask cannot be found: org/apache/tools/ant/Task
 using the classloader AntClassLoader[/Users/twarren/NetBeansProjects/Sample2/libs/appbundler-1.0.jar]

(the directory listed above in the second line is the correct one for the jarfile)

The script is (located in file bundleApp.xml):

<project name="AppBundle" default="default" basedir=".">
    <description>Builds app Bundle for project Sample2.</description>
    
<taskdef
    name="bundleapp"
    classname="com.oracle.appbundler.AppBundlerTask"
    classpath="libs/appbundler-1.0.jar" />

<target name="bundle">
        <bundleapp outputdirectory="${user.home}/Desktop/Builds"
            name="PuzzleViewer"
            displayname="Java Puzzle Viewer"
            identifier="sample2.JPuzzleViewer"
            shortversion="1.2.5"
            copyright="Copyright 2013 - Terry Warren. All rights reserved."
            applicationCategory="public.app-category.puzzle-gamess"
            icon="${user.home}/Desktop/builds/icons/puzzleviewer/puzzleviewer.icns"
            mainClassName="sample2/JPuzzleViewer">
            <classpath file="dist/Sample2.jar"/>
            <option value="-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true"/>
        </bundleapp>
</target> 
</project>

command line invocation: ant -f bundleApp.xml bundle 

I would appreciate any thoughts as to why this won't work.

thanks
Terry Warren