Where to get the tools.jar to use with the Java 8 jdk early release

Question

Where to get tools.jar for Java 8 JDK early release? Without it, my Java 1.8 Maven pom based projects in Netbeans will not compile.

The Java 8 early release is set in

Answer 1

Some JDK packages contain just the Java Runtime Environment.

So for instance in Fedora, Oracle Linux, RHEL, CentOS java-1.8.0-openjdk package contains just the JRE. If you want the development tools, then install the java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel package instead.

And in Debian/Ubuntu openjdk-8-jre package contains just the JRE. If you want the development tools, then install the openjdk-8-jdk package instead.