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Posts Tagged ‘Sun’

Case

You need include tools.jar as a dependency in a pom.xml, for instance in order to use Java 5’s annotations and APT. From a “Maven’s view point”, tools.jar is not a regular JAR defined by a groupId and artefactId.

Solution

Add this block in your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
    <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.0_24</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>

(You can also add it in your settings.xml)

You can do the same for any other “non-regular” JAR, available in your file system.