gistfile1.txt

    <path id="compile.classpath">

    <!-- Include all elements that Tomcat exposes to applications -->
    <fileset dir="${catalina.home}/bin">
      <include name="*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
    <pathelement location="${catalina.home}/lib"/>
    <fileset dir="${catalina.home}/lib">
      <include name="*.jar"/>
    </fileset>

  </path>

  
  <taskdef resource="org/apache/catalina/ant/catalina.tasks">
    <classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
  </taskdef>
  
  // Classpath compile.classpath is this value/
  // This includes tomcat-util.jar which contains the class that I'm getting a not found exception thrown for.
  
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