Eclipse/Maven error: “No compiler is provided in this environment”

Question

I am a relative newcomer to the world of Java enterprise development. My organization\'s Java guru is out on indefinite family leave, and I have been assigned the task of m

Answer 1

Please check if you have the following entries in the element of your pom.xml especially the jdk.version because switching to an installed jre did not fix me the similar error.

<properties>
    <jdk.version>1.7</jdk.version>
    <spring.version>4.1.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
    <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
    <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
</properties>

Answer 2

Follow : Windows --> Preferences --> Java ---> Installed JREs

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Click on "Search.."

Navigate to C drive ---> Program files

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Eclipse will find all the jre's and jdk's --> select one of the jdk and select Apply

Answer 3

Maven requires JDK to compile. In Eclipse you need to CHANGE/ REPLACE your JRE to the JDK path that your JAVA_HOME points to. Navigate to Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JREs.

Make sure that the maven-compiler-plugin in you pom.xml has the source and target of the java version in your JAVA_HOME

http://learn-automation.com/maven-no-compiler-is-provided-in-this-environment-selenium/

Answer 4

Go to Window → Preferences → Java → Installed JREs.

And see if there is an entry pointing to your JDK path, and if not, click on Edit button and put the path you configured your JAVA_HOME environment.

Answer 5

I also faced similar error when I was working with Jdk1.8_92. For me, I found tools.jar was missing in my jdk folder. Since I was running in console, I couldn't try the options of eclipse suggested by others..

I installed jdk-8u92-windows-x64. After I tried all options, I observed that tools.jar was missing in jdk1.8.0_92/lib folder. I copied tools.jar from my older version of java. Then It was able to compile.

Answer 6

When I was runing mvn compile, I was getting below error in console:

[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding Cp1252, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Compiling 1087 source files to C:\Code\DevVNextComplete\Development_vNext\Source\JARS\target\classes
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?
[INFO] 1 error

[Resolution]

I had added, the JAVA_HOME variable in my environment variables and then it worked.