“PWC6345: There is an error in invoking javac.” error when using Jetty WTP plugin to deploy a JSP page on Jetty

Question

I\'m trying to deploy a JSP-page on Jetty, using the Jetty WTP plugin for Eclipse. But I get the error below. It looks like Jetty can\'t find javac. Is there an

Answer 1

I got this error when deploy war package to our server.

My deploy command is (applied web container you may find):

java  -jar jetty-runner.jar  --port 8020 xx.war

I write this answer because it confused me almost one day. I tried some methods above but failed.

Finally I found there is only jre on my servers but not full jdk.

$ls /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.131-2.b11.el7_3.x86_64
jre

I fix it with searching available jdk and install one.

$yum search java | grep 'java-'
$sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64

(Notice the -devel)