Building J2EE examples with Ant 1.3 on WinXP

Question

I just installed J2EE 1.3.1 and set all environment variables according to J2EE/Ant documentation. I am trying to build the examples with Ant 1.3 and just before it tries to compile the first example, I get a "NTVDM.EXE Error while setting up environment" error window. This occurs every time I try this examples build. After I close this error window, the compiles fail mostly because the javax.ejb package classes cannot be found.
Have I overlooked something here? Can anyone shed some insight on this problem?
-Ryan

Answer 1

Didn't think I'd be replying to so many of my own messages :-) ..., but anyway the problem with the NTVDM.EXE error message does not go away. I found that it's happens when Ant reads the system environment in the "property" task in build.xml under examples directory:
<property environment="myenv" />
<!--
references to ${myenv.J2EE_HOME} and so on
-->
So I replaced occurences of ${myenv.<J2EE_HOME>} with the literal value, in my case, "C:\j2sdkee1.3.1" and now it works. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Lakshmi.