I installed a vanilla windows 2003 x64.
all there is on the box is java 5,6, 7, ant 1.7 and tomcat 6.0.7.
I figured now that hudson integrates svnkit I don't need to install subversion
on this box anymore.

When I create a new project and try to authenticate I get the following message.
Error
svn: Unable to create SVNRepository object for
'https://opends.dev.java.net/svn/opends/trunk/opends'

nothing is logged ...

could that be a security restriction on my end ?

secondly, I installed subversion on this windows box but that does not help