I was trying to install Apache Ant 1.7 on my machine, and it just wouldn't recognise the right path (JAVA_HOME). It kept on failing to locate tools.jar file which should be found by Ant if Ant correctly used JDK path. But it kept on using JRE! I tried uninstalling and re-installing JDK again and again to no avail. It was driving me nuts,
In the end, I finally found a useful help on the Java forum site (and it wasn't easy to find).
check if there's a java.exe and/or javaw.exe and/or javaws.exe in your Windows or Windows/System32 directory.
If there is, remove them.
Sometimes/often installers will put them there but subsequent installers not overwrite them.
Fixed my problem instantly. Stupid installer!
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I didn't really understand any of that, but I will try to nod my head and pat your back in mock-sympathy.
Thank you for posting this. I had the exact same problem, unfortunatly I spent more than a few hours trying to figure this out.
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