IOException: Cannot run program “javac”: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

Question

I got the error \"IOException: Cannot run program \"javac\": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified\" while running my scala project in play 2. why

Answer 1

for anyone who googles this error when using xml beans (I was forced to maintain an old app that uses xmlbeans and got this error), use jdk 5 and not higher for xmlbeans and this error goes away