Ant “JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK” - but it does

Question

I cannot run my Ant build.xml since I updated to java 1.7.0_52 (or there about). I have been running it for years through Eclipse locally on my Windows 7 laptop - but with t

Answer 1

I was having the same message when running ANT through Eclipse.

What worked for me:

1. In Eclipse, access the menu: "Window -> Preferences";
2. Access "Ant -> Runtime", at the tree;
3. Access the Classpath tab;
4. Expand the "Global Entries" item;
5. Inside Global Entries, the path to tools.jar was wrong. It was pointing to an older version of Java;
6. I removed the wrong entry and added the correct one with "Add External Jars" button. It worked.