Buiding Hadoop with Eclipse / Maven - Missing artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6
cloudera, hadoop, java, maven, maven-2
Solution
`jdk.tools:jdk.tools` (or `com.sun:tools`, or whatever you name it) is a JAR file that is distributed with JDK. Usually you add it to maven projects like this:
<dependency>
<groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
See, the Maven FAQ for adding dependencies to `tools.jar`
Or, you can manually install `tools.jar` in the local repository using:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jdk.tools -DartifactId=jdk.tools -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.6 -Dfile=tools.jar -DgeneratePom=true
and then reference it like Cloudera did, using:
<dependency>
<groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
</dependency>
Problem
I am trying to import cloudera's org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-client:2.0.0-cdh4.0.0 from cdh4 maven repo in a maven project in eclipse 3.81, m2e plugin, with oracle's jdk 1.7.0_05 on win7 using ``` <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId> <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId> <version>2.0.0-cdh4.0.0</version> </dependency> ``` however, I get the following error: ``` The container 'Maven Dependencies' references non existing library 'C:\Users\MyUserId\.m2\repository\jdk\tools\jdk.tools\1.6\jdk.tools-1.6.jar' ``` more specific, maven states that the following artifact is missing ``` Missing artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 ``` How to solve this?