Eclipsed by an Ant

I've been stuck on a web project for a while. Well, not really on the project itself, I've actually been stuck on running it with the GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse v1.2.

The bundle comes with two version of GlassFish: v2.1 and v3 Prelude. I never had problems running the project on v3, but every time I tried to use to v2.1 my Eclipse would get stuck during the publishing phase with this message: "Publishing to Bundled GlassFish, waiting for virtual machine to exit..."

It turns out that the difference in the publishing phase between the bundled GlassFish v2.1 and v3 is that the former uses Apache Ant. So I checked the Ant runtime home entries on Eclipse and found out they were messed up, pointing at the Axis2 plugin! I must have happened during the installation of the Axis2 Code Generator Wizard. Fixing the Ant home entries finally allowed me to publish the project to the bundled GlassFish v2.1

Here are the steps in Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede):

1. Click on Windows -> Preferences
2. Expand the Ant node and select the Runtime child node
3. In the Classpath tab, select Ant Home Entries from the list
4. Click the Ant Home button to bring up the folder browser
5. In the folder browser, navigate to the folder where Ant was installed
6. Click OK to go back to the Eclipse preferences dialog
7. Click Apply, then click OK

Done.
M.