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

$ANT_HOME doesn't mean $ANT_HOME, literally. $ANT_HOME means "the value of ANT_HOME".

If Ant is installed at c:\ant, your environment variables should be:

• ANT_HOME=c:\ant
• PATH = ...;c:\ant\bin;...

Same for JAVA_HOME.