Where to go and what to DL would have been more helpful, still, you helped put me on the right path. Thank You!
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Am installing ant and attempting to get it set up to install a new tool. when I enter ant at the command line, I get 'Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\tools.
tools.jar is not in jre6\lib, can you direct me to where I can get the correct version of java?
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by: rsnealePosted on 2009-01-22 at 13:06:43ID: 23443653
This is a jdk distribution item and you are referencing a jre distribution. Download the jdk and set your JAVA_HOME accordingly.