Java Home in Maven 3

Maven 3 built-in variable: ${java.home} points to JRE_HOME and not JDK.

If you would like to access the JDK home folder from maven, set JAVA_HOME on the OS level and use the environment variable: ${env.JAVA_HOME} to get access to it's value.

This trick together with JDK1.7u10+ simplified the build of LightFish by eliminating a custom variable pointing to a JavaFX installation. Now it is a plain: mvm clean install

See you at Java EE Workhops at MUC Airport (October 22nd-24th)!

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It doesn't work with NetBeans 7.2. There I get a NoClassDefFoundError:
run:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:480)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javafx.application.Application
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
... 13 more
Exception in thread "main" Java Result: 1

Compiling on CommandLine is working fine.

Posted by chris on October 30, 2012 at 05:00 PM CET #

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