IOException: Cannot run program “javac”: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

Question

I got the error \"IOException: Cannot run program \"javac\": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified\" while running my scala project in play 2. why

Answer 1

Check that you have the environment variable JAVA_HOME defined and set to the root directory of your JDK (not just a JRE, which doesn't include javac)