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

["Kyle Peter Fritz" <kyle.fritz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I have eclipse configured as described on the Grails website.  There 
isn't any mention of similar issues there, so I figured this is a problem 
with Eclipse and came here.

KPF

"David Wegener" <wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:g4uf6v$lg9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>