OKay ... I've decided that apache ant 1.7.0 is the biggest pain in the ass. I kept getting this error message, I'm on another computer so I don't have the exact error message right now. But the error message says that Java VM exited abnormally and its redirecting. Oh well if I get over my annoyances maybe I'll post it up. . And once I downgraded to 1.6.5 everything is working well. Which sucks since IntelliJ Idea comes with Ant 1.7 by default. Anyway the ant scripts for my junit test is now working.