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
When I looked at Eclipse > Window > preference > Java > Installed JRE > it was pointing to JRE, which seems obvious, but when I changed the pointing to JDK the compile error was resolved since there was tools.jar now in JDK.
Before this I had tried copying tools.jar from jdk/lib to jre/lib, but that did not solve the issue.