[Bug 63577] New: Do not look for tools.jar when a JRE is used (instead of a JDK)

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https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63577

            Bug ID: 63577
           Summary: Do not look for tools.jar when a JRE is used (instead
                    of a JDK)
           Product: Ant
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Wrapper scripts
          Assignee: notifications@ant.apache.org
          Reporter: chrispitude@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

I didn't see a formal request for this here, so I'm filing one.

The internets are filled with years of Q&As about the following message:

  Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in <path>\lib\tools.jar

I see grudging acknowledgement within the Ant community that this should be
fixed some day, but that day hasn't happened yet.

But I hope that day is soon. We are using the DITA Open Toolkit and this
message is confusing our users. And our users use a variety of different
Windows machines, which is not conducive to suppressing or avoiding the
message.

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[Bug 63577] Do not look for tools.jar when a JRE is used (instead of a JDK)

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Radu Coravu <ra...@sync.ro> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 OS|                            |All

--- Comment #1 from Radu Coravu <ra...@sync.ro> ---
Same here, the ANT build system can be used for more than java compiling so it
should complain that it does not have java compilation tools only when they are
necessary in the given task.

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[Bug 63577] Do not look for tools.jar when a JRE is used (instead of a JDK)

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Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
   Target Milestone|---                         |1.10.9
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #4 from Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> ---
https://github.com/apache/ant/commit/6c3d7de934fd8a90cb66c81c0d81c1a6b5390168

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--- Comment #3 from Chris Papademetrious <ch...@gmail.com> ---
Sure! On a machine with a JRE but *not* a JDK,

1. Download the DITA Open Toolkit from

https://www.dita-ot.org/download

2. Unarchive it.

3. Run

<dita-ot dir>/bin/dita --install    # on linux
<dita-ot dir>/bin/dita --install.bat    # on Windows

The "--install" option does not affect anything on your system; it just causes
that DITA-OT to rebuild its plugin database. Assuming you have a JRE but not a
JDK (and no tools.jar where it might be found), you should see the message.

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--- Comment #2 from Jaikiran Pai <ja...@apache.org> ---
Hello Chris, Radu,

Can one of you add some details on how/when this log message gets printed? I've
tried to reproduce this on some of the Ant projects (and Java versions) I have
on my *nix setup and haven't seen this message ever logged? Is this
specifically on Windows?

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