Where to get the tools.jar to use with the Java 8 jdk early release

Question

Where to get tools.jar for Java 8 JDK early release? Without it, my Java 1.8 Maven pom based projects in Netbeans will not compile.

The Java 8 early release is set in

Answer 1

The solution is to update the eclpise.ini, If no JDK is used for Eclipse, change it:

• Quit Eclipse if it is running
• Go to the Eclipse installation directory and open the file eclipse.ini in a text editor.
• Search for the line -vmargs
• Before the line -vmargs, add two lines:
• On the first line, write -vm
• On the second line, write the path to your JDK installation (usually something like: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_31\bin\javaw.exe on Windows)*

Solution also documented here