No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?

Question

I\'m compiling a project in Eclipse using m2eclipse. I set the JDK path in Eclipse like this:

Windows-->preferences-->installed jres--> jdk1.7.xx  p         


        

Answer 1

I was getting the same error when I created a new EC2 ubuntu 16.04 instance with Java already installed on it and while running mvn clean package, I encountered this issue and the below solution worked for me.

If you are working on an Ubuntu server, then you can try installing Java again and for that you can use this answer How to install the JDK on Ubuntu Linux