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Chris Lott commented on MPLUGIN-202:
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I bobbled the artifactId on this one, of course it's "maven-plugin-tools".
Anyhow, sorry for the trouble. Maybe you can straighten me out, please. I ran
into problems when I added a Maven dependency on maven-plugin-tools to a little
Java project. M2E posted errors about build-path problems, it was simply
unable to resolve tools.jar. The Eclipse workspace was *absolutely* configured
to use a Java JDK; the path "JAVA_HOME/../lib/tools.jar" was totally there,
etc. Anyhow, this artifact was the only one using tools.jar in that manner; I
searched thru POM files, found the log4j approach, thought it might be worth
raising as an issue. So when M2E works it's great; when it fails, it leaves no
log messages, no nothing, just frustration and confusion. Thanks for any help.
> Dependency on tools.jar should be expressed with profiles
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>
> Key: MPLUGIN-202
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPLUGIN-202
> Project: Maven 2.x Plugin Tools
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: maven-plugin-tools-javadoc
> Affects Versions: 2.9
> Reporter: Chris Lott
> Priority: Minor
>
> The POM for org.apache.maven.plugin-tools, org.apache.maven.plugin-tools,
> Version 2.9 asserts a dependency on the JDK's tools.jar like this:
> {code:xml}<dependency>
> <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
> <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
> <version>1.4.2</version>
> <scope>system</scope>
> <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
> </dependency>{code}
> This caused build path failures on my windows system that m2eclipse simply
> was not able to resolve, despite my use of the JDK, finally had to give up.
> I also note that on a Mac it will never work. Compare with the approach
> taken by artifact log4j, group log4j, version 1.2.16 for a tools.jar
> dependency:
> {code:xml}<dependency>
> <groupId>sun.jdk</groupId>
> <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
> <version>1.4.2</version>
> <scope>system</scope>
> <systemPath>${tools.jar}</systemPath>
> </dependency>{code}
> This "tools.jar" variable is defined in terms of machine profiles.
> Thanks for listening.
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