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

Adding the following two lines at the very beginning of your eclipse.ini file should tell maven where to find JDK:

-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\bin\javaw.exe

or whatever path you installed JDK into.