The default installed ANT in Eclipse doesn’t seem to support FTP protocols. To be able to use this feature, you’ll need to add 2 extra *.jar files, which are: commons-net-2.0.jar (download) jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar (download) Save these files in the following folder: /Applications/FDT3/plugins/org.apache.ant_***/bin/ Now goto: Preferences > ANT > Runtime > Classpath The screen should be like the one