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

I had a problem with Eclipse Neon where the workspace default did not actually change even though I added the correct location under Preferences->Java->Installed JREs. This was in a new workspace I created to work on a code branch; it was originally set to the JRE location rather than the JDK. Yet even after changing the preferences, I could build with the command line, yet building in Eclipse produced the no compiler error. Please see

Maven Package Compilation Error

for my answer on which Eclipse configuration file(s) had to be manually edited to make Eclipse recognize the correct workspace default. I still have no idea why the preferences setting did not carry through to the new workspace's configuration.