setting up environment variables in windows 7 for java and ant

Question

I have a book that says to do the following.

1. Add a JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME environment variable. - check
2. Add $JAVA_HOME/bin and $ANT_HOME/bin to my path va

Answer 1

1. right click My Computer
2. click Properties
3. go to Advanced system settings
4. click on Advanced tab
5. click on Environment Variables
6. click on New...

Now you can define an environment variable, type JAVA_HOME in Variable name and in Variable value the path to you JAVA_HOME, the same thing goes for ANT_HOME.