Hello, I have found the best thing to do with Windows is define JAVA_HOME in: 
My Computer/System Properties dialog. Click the Advance Tab Pane and click the 
button: Environment Variables. Don't do this as Administrator but just as the 
user you are when you are running Ant at the command-line. HTH

Eric Chamberlain wrote ..
> I have a real mystery and cannot find the solution anywhere I have looked
> (including the Ant FAQ).
> 
> Summary:   When I run Ant, it looks somewhere other than JAVA_HOME for the
> java directory.
> 
> I am running Ant on Windows XP to execute a NetBeans-generated build.xml.
> 
> One step I have tried has been to run 
> 
>    ant -diagnostics
> 
> Which confirms that java.home is located somewhere other than JAVA_HOME (not
> even in the same directory tree).
> 
> Here is my question:   How can I change the value of java.home for ant?
> What .properties file do I have create?   Why does ant ignore it if I type
> 
>    ant -Djava.home=%JAVA_HOME% -f mybuildfile.xml
> 
> I was expecting to override the java.home there but it didn't happen.
> 
> I am left rather puzzled.
> 
> Eric Chamberlain
> Software Engineer
>  

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