Getting “The POM for is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available” only in Eclipse

Question

I have recently upgraded to JAXB 2.2.11 and noticed in my Eclipse console the following message:

10/15/14, 11:42:46 PM GMT+2: [INFO] Creating new launch configur         


        

Answer 1

The pom for com.sun.xml.bind.jaxb-impl has com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-parent has its parent.

jaxb-parent pom has the following section:

    default-tools.jar
    
        
            ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar
        
    
    
        ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar
    


    default-tools.jar-mac
    
    
        ${java.home}/../Classes/classes.jar
    
    
    
        ${java.home}/../Classes/classes.jar
    

In your Eclipse, neither of the profile seems to be activated due to which ${tools.jar} does not have a value.

One possibility could be JAVA_HOME value is set incorrectly.