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

When you have both JRE and JDK installed in your system, please make sure JDK comes first in your PATH variable.

I think system scans the PATH variable from left to right, whatever comes first is taken into consideration.

In my case (with LinuxMint ) I was getting the same error. When I added JDK in PATH variable before JRE , it solved my problem.