[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JBRULES-1801) drools-ant-4.0.7, DroolsCompilerAntTask, classloader mixup leads to ClassCastException if drools-compiler.jar part of classpathref

drools-ant-4.0.7, DroolsCompilerAntTask, classloader mixup leads to ClassCastException if drools-compiler.jar part of classpathref ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-1801 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-1801 Project: Drools Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: drools-ant Affects Versions: 4.0.7 Reporter: Juergen H Assignee: Geoffrey De Smet drools-4.0.7: Original error in build.xml: /home/juergen/workspace/eclipse/kusss-dev/build.xml:777: RuleBaseTask failed: Unable to load dialect 'org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration:java' Traceback to: org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilderConfiguration, line 154+: Class cls = classLoader.loadClass( dialectClass ); DialectConfiguration dialectConf = (DialectConfiguration) cls.newInstance(); cls is org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration, but loaded via classloader given in drools compile ant task property classpathref, while DialectConfiguration is loaded via ant tool classpath used for taskdef --> java.lang.ClassCastException: org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialectConfiguration interim fix: make sure drools-compiler.jar is not in classpath of classloaderref suggested fix: Class cls = DialectConfiguration.class.getClassLoader().loadClass( dialectClass );