Buiding Hadoop with Eclipse / Maven - Missing artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6

Question

I am trying to import cloudera\'s org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client:2.0.0-cdh4.0.0 from cdh4 maven repo in a maven project in eclipse 3.81, m2e plugin, with o

Answer 1

Ok, if you are using Windows OS

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_40\lib (jdk Version might be different for you)

2. Make sure tools.jar is present (otherwise download it)

3. Copy this path "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_40"

4. In pom.xml

   
   jdk.tools
   jdk.tools
   1.8.0_40
   system
   C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_40/lib/tools.jar
   
   

5. Rebuild and run! BINGO!