When I had this problem, I KNOW that JAVA_HOME was set correctly. I still ran into the problem. The OP here also said JAVA_HOME was set correctly. There is some missing step here that prevents the ant Project instance from knowing which Java to use.
-----Original Message----- From: Ashley Williams [mailto:ashpub...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:56 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Java in JDK but ANT can't find it! It looks like you are pointing to the jre not the jdk. Try repointing the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the jdk directory instead, On 14 May 2009, at 13:15, David Nemer wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am running ANT programmatically in JAVA. So, my task is to build the > BUILD.XML. > I'm able to do so, but it throws an exception saying: > > /scratch2/nemer/test/xfire/build.xml:5: The following error occurred > while > executing this line: > /scratch2/nemer/test/xfire/build-common.xml:81: Unable to find a javac > compiler; > com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath. > Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK. > It is currently set to "/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/jre" > > But in the end it says: BUILD SUCCESSFUL (but it still throws that > exception). > > I already set all of my environment variables to /opt/jdk1.6.0_06/ > (JAVA_HOME and also in PATH), which is a JDK! And even on the error > message > it says that the java is set to /opt/jdk1.6.0_06/jre (which is a > JDK, I > don't know where it gets the jre from). > > So, does any one know how can I solve this problem? Is there a > configuration > file in ANT that we need to set up! I'm stuck there!! > > I'm running the ant 1.7.1. > > Cheers, > -- > David Nemer > Sent from Saarbrucken, SL, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
