On 14/09/2015 17:40, Robert Scholte wrote:
Hi,
On behalf of the Apache Maven team I'd like to ask for advice for
changing the JavaxToolsCompiler[1]
This implementation is used when java code is being compiled with
Maven *by default*, so right now when pointing JAVA_HOME to the latest
JDK9 version builds will fail.
There are other ways to compile, e.g. use the fork-parameter[2] or
with toolchains[3], but what I'd like to know is whether it is still
possible/valid to use javax.tools.JavaCompiler and is so: how should
we rewrite this code?
Thanks for bringing this up as a few people have reported issues with
Maven not finding the compiler.
Just to be clear, are you seeing this issue with the regular JDK 9 EA
builds or just the Jigsaw EA builds? Did this start when tools.jar went
away? I just did a quick test to check that
ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler() is returning the system
JavaCompiler is returned for both builds (and it is). Is the issue that
you are seeing that getSystemJavaCompiler() is returning null?
-Alan.
