How do you address the issue of a missing tools.jar in a JDK in Mac OS X?

Question

From my searching, I found supporting information here: Java Development Guide for Mac OS X

tools.jar does not exist. Classes usually lo

Answer 1

Edit to Bruno's answer which was finally what worked for me after quite a bit of maven trial and error.

If you are using 1.7 then you should be able to change revision to 1.7. I do not know if this is still a problem in Java 1.7 though.

sudo sh -c '$(j_home=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6) && ln -sf ${j_home}/../Classes/classes.jar ${j_home}/../Classes/tools.jar && ln -sf ${j_home}/../Classes ${j_home}/../lib)'