project.version=$${${svntag}.name} JAVA_HOME=${java.home} If you get a junit task lookup failure, you need to add the junit.jar to the classpath, possibly by copying it into the ANT_HOME/lib folder. See http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/junit.html for more. replaceme Starting release build at ${checkout.dir}/${build.file.name} Checking out files of SVN tag: ${svntag} Variable $${svntag} must be specified for selected target.