Stefan,
> Ok one reason of this problem could be that
> tools.jar is missing in the classpath ...
Almost as soon as I sent that message I stumbled across
both the mailing list and the solution. I was missing
tools.jar from my path. I actually had tools.jar in my
path previously, but it was blown away by another install
that was done on my machine.
I also read a comment that putting tools.jar in the
jre/lib/ext directory will work as well, but I haven't
tried that technique as yet.
Thanks again.
M@
