A file to import to set up Ant for running maven. it creates a presetdef extension of java that is set up for running maven, just add new new commands with nested arg elements, tweak the JVM with jvmarg. See the java command for all that can be used. Unable to locate maven. It is not in the well-known locations, and there is no property maven.home defined. Set maven.home to the base dir of your maven installation. There is no directory ${maven.home} There is no directory ${maven.home}/lib Unable to locate tools.jar, which contains the Java compiler and other needed tools. Please set the property jdk.home to point to the root directory of the JDK, the environment variables JDK_HOME or JAVA_HOME to the same location, or tools.jar to the absolute location of tools.jar For reference tools.jar = ${tools.jar} java.home = ${java.home} JDK_HOME = ${env.JDK_HOME} JAVA_HOME = ${env.JAVA_HOME}