Question

So for reason of running many projects, I don’t want to change JAVA_HOME variable (1.6) but I would like ant to run and use 1.5 JDK.

I have manage to do this from Eclipse IDE (so it can be done), so when running from Eclipse IDE it will use 1.5 since I specified JDK 1.5 as project’s JDK.

To make long story short I want Ant when run from cmd prompt to use JDK 1.5.

Seems pretty easy but I am having trouble finding out the way to do it.

P.S.

Reason I need this to work from command prompt is because ant build is quite long 3-4 mins and my Eclipse IDE gets frozen while it’s running. Three minutes waits are simply not acceptable 🙂

Thanks all.

Answer 1

You can write your own script, called ant2 or similar, to execute ant from the JDK that you want and add it into the PATH.