WHen I type ant -diagnostics I get this result ant -diagnostics ------- Ant diagnostics report ------- Apache Ant version 1.6.2 compiled on August 5 2004 -> ant 1.6.2 ------------------------------------------- Implementation Version (JDK1.2+ only) ------------------------------------------- core tasks : null optional tasks : 1.6.2 ------------------------------------------- ANT_HOME/lib jar listing ------------------------------------------- ant.home: /local/skirtane/apache-ant-1.7.0 ->-- ant 1.7 Why is it different ? Thanks Shobhana