Setting Up ANT !!!

One of the most boring tasks is to set up ant to work on your computer, it is really a a very boring task that i usually spend a good amount of time doing and if i need to set it up again for any reason i discover that i do not remember and the spaghetti of environment variables begin :S. So, this post is to remind me rather than any body else what i need to do when setting up ANT :).

After downloading ANT, you need to specify some paths in the environment variables in order to work just by writing "ant" on the command line:

-In case you do not know where to find the environment variables :
right click on my computer -> advanced -> Environment variables.

-Make sure you have a JDK installed, and set the variable JAVA_HOME with the installation path of the JDk. e.g; c:\jdk1.6.0_02

- Make a variable named ANT_HOME with the path to installation directory to ant, e.g; C:\apache-ant-1.7.0

- MAKE SURE to add the path to the bin folders of both the jdk and ant to the "path" variable. The "path" variable must contain these two entries:
C:\jdk1.6.0_02\bin;C:\apache-ant-1.7.0\bin

Hopefully, you will get ANT working by now. If you do not know what ANT is, you can wait to see the coming post :).