Activiti installation process with Ant

[jperez1]

I am trying to install Activiti. For it, I run the ant command in the directory setup where there is a build.xml file. However, the installation process is stopped and the following error appears in the command prompt:

Buildfile: C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\build.xml

demo.install:
     [echo] installing demo…

internal.define.jdbc.driver.libs:

internal.build.webapps:

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\build.xml:110: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\build.xml:352: C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\files\webapps does not exist.

Total time: 1 second


I am trying to install Activiti. For it, I run the ant command in the directory setup where there is a build.xml file. However, the installation process is stopped and the following error appears in the command prompt:

Buildfile: C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\build.xml

demo.install:
     [echo] installing demo…

internal.define.jdbc.driver.libs:

internal.build.webapps:

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\build.xml:110: The following error occurred while executing this line:
C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\build.xml:352: C:\Users\user1\Downloads\activiti\distro\src\setup\files\webapps does not exist.

Total time: 1 second

It is supposed that the webapps directory should be created for the installation process.

[jbarrez]

we've not used ant for a loooooong time. Why not use the latest version?

[jperez1]

I am precisely using the latest version of Ant.

[jbarrez]

I mean the latest version of Activiti, of course 😉

The current release does not use ant, not has it an ant installer (it has been like that for a couple of years now)

[jperez1]

I am using the book "Activiti in Action" and following its examples. The book uses the version 5.9 of Activiti and that is precisely what I want to make use of.