Missing artifact com.sun:tools:jar:1.5.0 maven

Question

I am using maven in my web project this is how my pom.xml looks I use eclipse juno,with apache tomcat 7,I am runnning windows xp OS,"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\lib" is where my tools jar is.i tried hardcoding it in pom.xml but it was telling cant hard code.tried the below using profiles still same error "Missing artifact com.sun:tools:jar:1.5.0" please please help I am fed up since 1 week of googling

    </dependencies>
<profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>default-tools.jar</id>
      <activation>
        <property>
          <name>java.vendor</name>
          <value>Sun Microsystems Inc.</value>
        </property>
      </activation>
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
          <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
          <version>1.5.0</version>
          <scope>system</scope>
          <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

</project>


 I:\eclipse-jee-juno-RC3-win32\workspace\MYProject>mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building MYProject 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.594s
[INFO] Finished at: Sat Feb 23 20:49:53 GMT+05:30 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 3M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project MYProject: Could not resolve dependencies for project MYProject:MYProject:war:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find com.sun:tools:jar:1
.5.0 in http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
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I:\eclipse-jee-juno-RC3-win32\workspace\MYProject>

Answer 1

Its nothing to do with maven or pom. You are trying to run maven from eclipse and hence you need to make sure that you configure JDK properly in eclipse. I think the version of JDK mentioned in the eclipse is not that is installed. So change in eclipse and point the JRE System Library to your installed JDK path.

Answer 2

If you're developing on Mac OS X, this is a known issue. According to the Mac Developer Library,

tools.jar does not exist. Classes usually located here are instead included in classes.jar.

This works for me on the Mac:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
    <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
    <version>${java.version}</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>${java.home}/../Classes/classes.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>

Answer 3

When I use mac to compile the project which will use some classes under the tools.jar, I confront the same error, But at linux, everything is OK. So I add maven dependency explicitly, it works. I think the key point is checking if the systemPath is right. ps: My jdk version is 1.7,

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
        <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
        <version>${java.version}</version>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
    </dependency>

Answer 4

Check if you have installed Java JDK 6 instead of JRE 6. Then check if you have configured and checked in Eclipse your Java Runtime correctly (Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs).