The support for ANT and JRE6 with Eclipse Photon.

The plugin was created for:

Don't forget the -clean start (read the original article for more details)!

One more thing you should do:

Photon includes ANT > 1.10. This version requires Java 8. In order to use Java 6, you have to download ANT 1.9.x. Simply download ANT and set the ANT Home to your version, via

If you try to use the bundled ANT with JRE 6, it will fail with an Exception.

Download the plugin from here. It works for us - no warranty!

More Details: Eclipse Oxygen.2 with ANT and JRE6.

3 Responses to “Eclipse Photon with ANT and JRE6”

1. Lee says:

   27/09/2018 at 16:51

   Hello.

   My Eclipse Photon version is as follow.
   Version: 2018-09 (4.9.0)
   Build id: 20180917-1800

   and Ant plug-in versions are as follows.
   1) org.eclipse.ant.core_3.5.200.v20180822-0553.jar
   2) org.eclipse.ant.launching_1.2.200.v20180822-0553.jar
   3) org.eclipse.ant.ui_3.7.200.v20180822-0553.jar

   I deleted the above jar files, and I copied your patched jar files to eclipse plugin directory.

   There was no problem in use yet.

   Can I do it like this?

   Thank you.
2. rjahn says:

   28/09/2018 at 23:39

   Sure, everything is fine if its working
3. Lee says:

   01/10/2018 at 13:53

   Thanks for your answer. ^-^