Building a Java EE app on Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Glassfish 3

I'm having a bit of a problem building a Java Enterprise Edition web application on Mac OS X 10.6.2 using Ant 1.7.1, Glassfish v3 and Java EE 6.

The problem is that the b开发者_开发知识库uild process does not find the Java EE libraries which fair enough as I don't think Apple supply them with the default Java installation but I know they exist in the Glassfish distribution.

Which jars are the correct ones to build against (I'm assuming javaee.jar is a general jar which references all the other needed jars) and what should I be putting in my ant build.xml file?

Any help is very much appreciated.

You need to have the javaee.jar in your ant classpath, but be aware: do not copy the javaee.jar to the webapp (WEB-INF/lib folder)!

I would encourage you to get and use NetBeans or GlassFish Tools Bundle For Eclipse to start working with Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3... (read my profile to find out why).

If you are determined to avoid using either of these IDEs, then I would recommend that you download the Java EE 6 SDK, to get started. The SDK includes a number of different samples that can be built and deployed using Ant. (Use -verbose to learn the 'secrets')