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[jira] Reopened: (MNG-806) tools.jar needs to be supported as a normal dependency

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-806?page=all ]
     
Brett Porter reopened MNG-806:
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fixing fix for

> tools.jar needs to be supported as a normal dependency
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: MNG-806
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-806
>      Project: Maven 2
>         Type: Improvement
>  Environment: sun sdk
>     Reporter: Matthew Pocock
>     Assignee: John Casey
>      Fix For: 2.0-beta-2

>
>
> 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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