How do you address the issue of a missing tools.jar in a JDK in Mac OS X?

Question

From my searching, I found supporting information here: Java Development Guide for Mac OS X

tools.jar does not exist. Classes usually located here are instead included in classes.jar. Scripts that rely on the existence of tools.jar need to be rewritten accordingly.

If a rewrite is inevitable, how does that go?

This problem was encountered while deploying on Tomcat 6 installed via MacPorts on a Mac OS X 10.6 machine.

Answer 1

Here is my tested solution, which implies no change in maven config, just add symbolic links:

• ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_38-b04-436.jdk/Contents/Home/../Classes/classes.jar /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_38-b04-436.jdk/Contents/Home/../Classes/tools.jar
• ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_38-b04-436.jdk/Contents/Home/../Classes /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_38-b04-436.jdk/Contents/Home/../lib

Enjoy! Bruno