Ant + Vista 64 : “Unable to locate tools.jar” (jre/jdk conflict?)

Question

I\'m trying to use ant in a vista 64 environment to build some docbook/xml files.

However, I can\'t resolve this error message. Anybody have suggestions?

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Answer 1

All you need is to set JAVA_HOME path in your environment. In Windows 7 go to "System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables" and add JAVA_HOME. The value in my case was:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_07

This resolved the issue for me. This variable points Ant to the correct Java location.