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Latest Eclipse won't import maven project due to tools.jar [message #1855791]

Thu, 03 November 2022 11:23

Haci Ermis

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Registered: November 2022

Junior Member

Hi, since eclipse dropped the ability to run itself with JDK8 (2020-09?) newer versions that rely on Java11+ seem to have issue with legacy projects that for one reason or another include tools.jar from the JDK as a system dependency.

Adding JDK8 as an installed JRE and adding tools.jar as an external dependency still does not allow m2e to resolve the dependency correctly.

Stand-alone maven is absolutely fine.

Using Eclipse 2020-04 and setting the startup VM to JDK8 works perfectly fine.

I'm guessing eclipse is using its internal JRE for m2e which may be the issue here.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

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