I think you can use ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar (and remember to
omit it on non-Sun JVM platforms), and document that the user must be
running Java from the JDK, not a JRE (and present a helpful error
message if the class you are looking for cannot be found). You might
look at the source for plexus-compiler-javac for some guidance. I'm
not sure if that is all in the scope of what you are doing or
something the apt plugin should be doing (aren't there other
implementations of the apt plugin too?)
- Brett
On 28/12/2007, at 9:03 AM, Evan Worley wrote:
Thanks for the info Brett,
I am loading it via a dependency. I depend on the maven-apt-plugin (
http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/tobago-tool/maven-apt-plugin/)
which has a
system scoped dependency on tools.jar
So if we can't ensure that java.home is set to a JDK, how can we
recommend
people use the java.home relative path to find the tools.jar?
Thanks,
Evan
On Dec 27, 2007 1:56 PM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's set by the JVM itself - you will probably need profiles for the
different possibilities (like the Mac one, where there is no
tools.jar).
Are you loading this via a dependency, or creating your own
classloader?
- Brett
On 28/12/2007, at 5:24 AM, Evan Worley wrote:
Hi All,
I need to have the JDK's tools.jar on my classpath and have been
fumbling
through the configuration to make this happen. I found the
following page
which describes how to use the java.home property to locate the
tools.jar,
http://maven.apache.org/general.html#tools-jar-dependency. But I
have also
found several pages, such as
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/MavenPropertiesGuide
which point
out that java.home might be a JRE and not a JDK. How can we ensure
that
tools.jar can be found using a relative path from ${java.home}?
Does anyone know how java.home is computed? I have read that it is
not
always equal to the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
Also if context might help, I need the tools.jar to use the
maven-apt-plugin.
Thanks for any help,
Evan
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