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SpringDevNotebook Spring-Chap1-lab4\build.xml

I was testing a code example in chapter I from the book "Spring A Developer's Notebook" and i got this infamous error while running the ant task to test.
ant test
The timely solution is add the junit.jar to your classpath ..that is

In Windows Command Prompt
set classpath=%classpath%;C:\projects\java\junit-4.1\junit-4.1.jar;
an then run the ant task.... say C:\projects\java\SpringDevNotebook\Spring-Chap1-lab4>ant test

In UnixCommand Prompt
export CLASSAPTH=$CLASSPATH:/path/to/junit/junit.jar

Thats solves the problem, if you know any other elegant idea on this please let me know.
I made a blog on this bcos Apache Ant Forum mailing list is not easily searchable for a given question. :-(