tools.jar needs to be supported as a normal dependency
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Key: MNG-806
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-806
Project: Maven 2
Type: Improvement
Environment: sun sdk
Reporter: Matthew Pocock
Sun SDKs have a tools.jar that provides API for extending the Sun java tools.
This includes APT and Javadoc. There is no mechanism in maven for loading in
tools.jar as a dependency. It can be added to the classpath before maven is
launched, or manually loaded into the local repository. However, neither of
these solutions are very satisfactory.
Could we have some smarts in the dependency loading that understands a magical
jdk groupId that resolves to the current JDK being used for compilation? This
would let JDK-dependent stuff be linked in. In the case of tools.jar, the
dependency snippet would look something like this:
<dependency>
<groupId>sun.jdk</groupId>
<artifactId>tools</artifactId>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
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