Are you running Eclipse IDE? Looks similar to http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Project+FAQ#ProjectFAQ-UnabletolocatetheJavacCompilerError
Brett On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Andrew Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I get the following error and I'm pretty sure that the problem is hidden > somewhere. Things of interest are in *bold* below > > [INFO] Compiling 16 source files to > D:\Workspace\gwt1.6-maven2-starter-app-1.0\server\target\classes > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Compilation failure > Unable to locate the Javac Compiler in: > C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_14\*..\lib*\tools.jar > Please ensure you are using JDK 1.4 or above and not a JRE (the > com.sun.tools.javac.Main class is required). In most cases you can change > the location of your Java installation by setting the JAVA_HOME environment > variable. > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds > [INFO] Finished at: Mon Feb 01 10:09:48 CST 2010 > [INFO] Final Memory: 12M/25M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > D:\Workspace\gwt1.6-maven2-starter-app-1.0\parent>*echo %JAVA_HOME%* > *C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_14* > * > * > > My JAVA_HOME appears to be set correctly, pointing to jdk1.6.0_14. However, > the compiler plugin is looking for ..\lib\tools.jar. Which does not exist, > because the ".." (up one directory) path is actually pointing to > 'C:\Program > Files\Java\lib\tools.jar' which is obviously wrong. > > Any idea's where the relative path could be getting trashed? > > Cheers :) > > p.s. to get the source for the code I am trying to build: > svn checkout *http*:// > gwt-maven2-starter-app.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gwt-maven2-starter-app-read-only >
