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

Instead of using Tomcat from Macports download Tomcat from Apache.

6.0: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

7.0: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi