I am building a project in Java. 

I have this error:

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    Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\tools.jar

I have installed a JDK and the folder: `C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib` is in my system but the file `tools.jar` is not there.


Unable to locate tools.jar

I would like to put JDK tools.jar as compile dependency. I found some examples that indicate to use the **systemPath** property like the following:

    &lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;tools&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;scope&gt;system&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;systemPath&gt;${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar&lt;/systemPath&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;

The problem is that the path is not correct for Mac Os X (however it is correct for Windows and Linux). For it, the correct path is **${java.home}/../Classes/classes.jar**.

I am looking for a way in order to define a maven property such that if system is detected as Mac Os X, value is set to **${java.home}/../Classes/classes.jar**, otherwise it is set **to ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar** (like it is possible to do with ANT). Does someone has an idea ?

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