Why does ANT tell me that JAVA_HOME is wrong when it is not?

ant classpath java-home
Ankur picture Ankur · Oct 13, 2009 · Viewed 141.3k times · Source

I get the error:

C:\dev\ws\springapp\build.xml:81: Unable to find a javac compiler; com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath. Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK. It is currently set to "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6"

But I have clearly set my JAVA_HOME to be C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_14

Where is ANT getting this value?

Answer

Luigi DAmico picture Luigi DAmico · Jul 3, 2012
  1. In Eclipse click Run → External Tools → External Tools Configurations.
  2. Click the JRE tab.
  3. Click the Installed JREs... button.
  4. Click the Add button.
    (Select Standard VM, where applicable.)
  5. Click the Directory button.
  6. Browse to your JDK version (not JRE) of your installed Java
    (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_04).
  7. Click Finish and OK.
  8. Select the JDK at Separate JRE and click Close.
  9. Re-run your Ant script — have fun!

This worked in a particular scenario I encountered.

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