[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse can't find javac

[David Wegener <wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle Peter Fritz wrote:
> Actually, I am developing a Grails application (grails.org).  This problem 
> is puzzling because issuing the command "grails run-app" from the command 
> line, which compiles the app independently from Eclipse, works just fine.
>
> KPF

Have you installed a plugin for Grails development?  I'm not familiar 
with with a Grails plugin on the Eclipse sight.  If it is a third party 
plugin, you might want to check with the provider of the plugin.


> "Wayne Beaton" <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:1215456802.6011.9.camel@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Actually... it's curious that Eclipse is looking for javac at all.
> > Eclipse uses ecj to compile Java.
> >
> > What are you doing that results in this error?
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:21 -0700, Kyle Peter Fritz wrote:
> > > When attempting to compile, I get an error:
> > >
> > > Compilation error: Unable to find a javac compiler;
> > > com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
> > > Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK.
> > > It is currently set to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre"
> > >
> > > Obviously, this isn't right.  It should be set to "C:\Program
> > > Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".  I don't know why it has that "jre" directory at
> > > the end.  My environment variable for JAVA_HOME is set to "C:\Program
> > > Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".  The location of the installed JRE in
> > > Preferences>Java>Installed JREs is "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06".
> > > Even Ant seems configured correctly with
> > > Preferences>Ant>Runtime>Classpath>Global Entries listing "C:\Program
> > > Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\lib\tools.jar".
> > >
> > > I can't figure out why Eclipse is looking for javac in the jre 
> > > subdirectory,
> > > and I am scratching my head trying to figure out where this setting was
> > > made.  Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?
> > >
> > > -KPF