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Re: [iam-dev] "Unable to locate the Javac Compiler ..."

It may be that Eclipse is being launched with a JRE instead of a JDK

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Morris Jones<mojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At the moment the solution I have is to delete the project from Eclipse and
> re-import it.
>
> Morris Jones wrote:
>>
>> Totally strange error that crops up occasionally in one of my several
>> Maven Eclipse projects:
>>
>> Description    Resource    Path    Location    Type
>> Unable to locate the Javac Compiler in:
>>  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\..\lib\tools.jar
>> Please ensure you are using JDK 1.4 or above and
>> not a JRE (the com.sun.tools.javac.Main class is required).
>> In most cases you can change the location of your Java
>> installation by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
>>    pom.xml    /advertise    line 1    pomproblemmarker
>>
>> The strange thing is that, of course, I have JAVA_HOME pointing to real
>> JDK's (1.6), and project-specific settings are turned off, and Eclipse is
>> using a JDK for the installed JRE.
>>
>> So something is fishy about that.
>>
>> This is a paste from the "Problems" view in Eclipse 3.5
>>
>> Mojo
>
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