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

Well, you search for 'tools.jar', with grep for instance. If the place where classes.jar is, where tools.jar was expected, you could just change the word.

Another idea is, to create a symbolic link from classes.jar to tools.jar, if you have enough privileges and the file system(s) on MacOS support this. Else: copy. Might be more easy, but not be forgotten for updates, maybe.