Maven in Eclipse complains that “Unable to locate the Javac Compiler” whenever POM changed

Question

I got error message every time I changed my pom.xml in eclipse.

Build errors for myapp; org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to ex         


        

Answer 1

None of the above worked for me but when I followed the following steps, the problem went away.

• Go to Window -> Preferences -> Java -> installed JREs
• Select the JRE you are using (Should be the one inside jdk. Ex: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\jre)
• Press Edit -> Add External JARs...
• Browse to Java\jdk1.6.0_25\lib and select tools.jar and Press Enter
• Press Finish and OK