error upgrading aspectj-maven-plugin v1.8

Question

Upgrading the maven plugin from 1.7 to 1.8 results in the following error message:

[ERROR] \'dependencies.dependency.systemPath\' for com.sun:tools:jar must specify

Answer 1

I’m ashamed to admit that in my case this error was caused by wrong JAVA_HOME path: I point it out to jre, not jdk folder