Help! Windows People...

I'm on a windows server. I have 3 environment variables -

ANT_HOME
JINTEGRA_HOME
Path

Path includes references to ANT_HOME and JINTEGRA_HOME, as well as other variables like JAVA_HOME. When I open a command prompt, all of the paths (including those referencing JAVA_HOME) resolve, but the ANT_HOME and JINTEGRA_HOME variables do not. If I go to the environment variable window, open the Path variable as if I'm going to edit it, but then don't edit it, and close it again and then close and reopen my command prompt, echo %Path% shows the correct path with ANT_HOME and JINTEGRA_HOME resolved.

Know what I mean? Does this make sense? In other words, ANT_HOME and JINTEGRA_HOME are never properly added to my path unless I edit the environment variable before opening a command line. If I don't edit the environment variable first, I get something like:

> echo %Path%
c:\blah\bin;c:\program files\programiinstalled\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%JINTEGRA_HOME%\bin

See?

It really sucks. I've tried googling it. I've tried ripping the path apart, but if you are familiar with windows you know there's a LOT of things in that variable.

This article is exactly what I'm experiencing, except that his solution isn't going to work for me because this is on a server and I just can't have this going on.

Has anyone ever seen this before?

Websphere Funny of the Day

From IBM Websphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration: "If you don't have an understanding of core network commands, be resourceful. Use people skills to get assistance from someone who does, or simply use the popular internet search utilities to gain a better understanding of the topic."

Something cracks me up about a vendors book recommending that you "use people skills" or simply use Google to solve your problem. Or, maybe I'm just punchy because I've been doing this all day.

Warning: Java/CVS/CruiseControl/Ant

For those that don't want to spend 3 hours trying to figure this out like I just did...

This proves that the Ant documentation is better than the CVS documentation, CVSNT documentation and the CruiseControl documentation.

If you are setting up CruiseControl on a PC other than the same PC/Server where your CVS repository is located, you need to have CVS.exe in your path. I didn't have CVS.exe on my PC at all, so even though I was successfully connecting to the CVS repository, the CVSLog command wasn't working. What this meant is that CruiseControl was doing the build as usual, but it was NOT getting changes from CVS, since without a CVSLog, it didn't know what was going on on the server. After fiddling with just about everything, I finally tried to set up an Ant task to get the CVSLog and the ANT documentation finally explained that I need CVS.exe in the path to get this command to work. Thank you, Ant team!! Everyone else sucks.

I do love opensource, though.