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

For me (on windows 10), I was getting the error "No compiler is provided in this environment" at the Windows command prompt when I ran mvn install. The fix was changing the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to my jdk (C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101); previously it had pointed to the jre.

And to get Eclipse to use the new jdk, I edited eclipse.ini in my eclipse distribution and changed the line for -vm to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101\bin.