I’ve been using Eclipse at work now, the first time I’ve done more than toy with it. Along with Eclipse are the attendant tools – Ant, Maven, TomCat and ClearCase (oh yes, ClearCase).
So, Ant. I came across a situation where the build was failing to deploy the WAR files to TomCat, with the following error:
build.xml:887: java.net.UnknownHostException: C
Not much use there. As it turns out, the solution was both simple and cripplingly unintuitive: replace “file://” with “file:///”. The extra slash makes all the difference.
For example:
Replace:
war="file://${dist.dir}/app.war"
With:
war="file:///${dist.dir}/app.war"
