In the pom.xml for a java project, I get missing artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 error

Question

I think I know how to solve the problem except: I don\'t know where in the pom the specific version is referred to (I do not see it explicitly) and the solution I have seen is t

Answer 1

For anyone who stumbles over this issue in the future, read on for a more elegant solution:

Reason

This issue crops up in one of the two scenarios:

1. You do not have JDK installed and configured; or

2. You've both JDK and JRE installed and JRE is getting precedence over the JDK path.

Solution

As explained in this link by the team at 'Hadoop in the real world', you merely need to add the dependency to tools.jar in your pom.xml file.

jdk.tools
jdk.tools
1.7.0_05
system
${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar

If the error persists, then just change the path to tools.jar to an absolute path as shown below:

C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_65/lib/tools.jar