How do you address the issue of a missing tools.jar in a JDK in Mac OS X?

Question

From my searching, I found supporting information here: Java Development Guide for Mac OS X

tools.jar does not exist. Classes usually lo

Answer 1

This is similar to Bruno's answer above; however, I am not a big fan of symlinking the absolute path. Here is how I handle the symlinks:

cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines//Contents/Home
sudo ln -s lib Classes

cd lib/
sudo ln -s tools.jar classes.jar

That makes it easier then symlinking absolute paths.