[jakartaee-tck-dev] Has anyone else seen this "ClassNotFoundException: o

[Scott Marlow <smarlow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This week, I started trying to build Jakarta EE CTS locally, as I would 
like to be setup to verify changes that I make locally, before creating 
a pull request.

I first hit the "missing jars" blocking issue [1].  I also experienced 
some other problems that I mention in [2].  I attempted a temporary 
workaround by downloading some of the jars (in my private Jenkins 
sandbox job :).

I also started a test branch with some minor changes that may or may not 
be valid [3].  Mostly, I am skipping the hard coded reference to the JDK 
folder (if the folder doesn't exist) and ignoring the 
cts-trunk-almgit.properties file, if it doesn't exist.  What is this 
cts-trunk-almgit.properties file for?

I am now getting a "ClassNotFoundException: 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod" [4] from the 
docker/build_cts8.sh, which seems like I'm missing the 
commons-httpclient-3.1.jar or commons-httpclient.jar from the classpath. 
 Any suggestions for resolving that?

I neglected to include the Ant output in [4], that would show the 
current target being executed (prior to the [4] error):
"
[ant] Entering 
/mnt/hudson_workspace/workspace/jakartaee-ee8/buildcts/release/tools/common.xml...
Build sequence for target(s) `build' is [init, build]
Complete build sequence is [init, build, get.deliverable.version.number, 
checkPlatform, ]
"

Could this be caused by my not having a cts-trunk-almgit.properties?

Scott

[1] https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck/issues/4
[2] https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck/issues/7
[3] https://github.com/scottmarlow/jakartaee-tck/tree/skipsome
[4] https://pastebin.com/80sf06Rc