Eclipse/Maven error: “No compiler is provided in this environment”

Question

I am a relative newcomer to the world of Java enterprise development. My organization\'s Java guru is out on indefinite family leave, and I have been assigned the task of m

Answer 1

When I was runing mvn compile, I was getting below error in console:

[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding Cp1252, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Compiling 1087 source files to C:\Code\DevVNextComplete\Development_vNext\Source\JARS\target\classes
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?
[INFO] 1 error

[Resolution]

I had added, the JAVA_HOME variable in my environment variables and then it worked.