Ant build not working: unable to find a javac compiler

Question

I am trying to run some Java EE examples. Ant is suggesting: Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK. It is currently set to \"C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7

Answer 1

Quick work around for the same is

Copy C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_03\lib\tools.jar to C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\

This exception is coming because JAVA_HOME is being set as C:\Program Files\Java\jre7 and Ant is not able to find tools.jar in it.