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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