Ant is using wrong java version

Question

I\'m using Ant 1.7.0 and installed java 1.6 which is in JAVA_HOME.

I want to build a project using java 1.5, so I\'ve exported JAVA_HOME to be my java 1.5 directory.

Answer 1

This is rather an old question, but I will add my notes for future references.

I had a similar issue and fixed it by changing the order of the exports in the PATH variable.

For example I was using a method of concatenating strings to my PATH by doing (this is just an example):

$> export PATH='$PATH:'$JAVA_HOME

If my variable PATH already had a java in it, the last value would be meaningless, thus the order would matter. To solve this I started inverting it by adding my variable first, then adding the PATH.

Following this idea I inverted the order that ANT_HOME was being exported. Adding JAVA_HOME before ANT_HOME.

This could be just a coincidence, but it worked for me.