[jira] (MANTRUN-91) Cannot run javac from tasks

["Adrian Wilkins (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Adrian Wilkins commented on MANTRUN-91:
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I too have just wasted a few hours on this problem, and applied the horrible workaround.

What's the design rationale behind mangling the JAVA_HOME variable / classpath / whatever for plugin executions? To me it seems silly to do this - Maven is a build system... why would you want to hobble it's plugins by preventing them from building things (without special measures)?

In my opinion this completely violates the principle of least surprise - if I set JAVA_HOME to a JDK, I expect plugins to behave in a way consistent with that, unless I explicitly state otherwise.
                
> Cannot run javac from tasks
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>
>                 Key: MANTRUN-91
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANTRUN-91
>             Project: Maven 2.x Antrun Plugin
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Thomas Diesler
>            Assignee: Benson Margulies
>
> Embedded error: The following error occurred while executing this line:
> /home/tdiesler/svn/jbossws/stack/native/trunk/modules/testsuite/native-tests/scripts/antrun-wstools.xml:65: Unable to find a javac compiler;
> com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
> Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK

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