JDE also looks for tools.jar to check if a directory is a JDK directory or not. Try creating an empty tools.jar in the lib directory of your JDK. You will be able to use the compile server, but it might let you used JDE with other jdks.
Suraj On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:25:05 -0500, Matt Kurjanowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The tools.jar is the file that contains the compiler. This way JDEE can run > the compiler directly using the classpath that JDEE sets. > -Matt > > > > On Monday 22 November 2004 03:15 pm, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble running JDEE (with both Emacs and XEmacs) on a > > Debian GNU/Linux system. The problem is with finding the tools.jar > > file. Since I'm using runtimes not licensed from Sun (sablevm, kaffe > > etc.) this file is missing. > > > > Could some one explain to me (just a hint) why tools.jar is so > > important to JDEE? I can run beanshell without it, and I'm not sure > > what else might be needing it. > > > > Best regards, > > Shyamal > > > > PS: I read this list via the web, so I would never complain about a Cc :-) > > -- > Matthew Kurjanowicz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CS 2110 TA > College of Computing > GEORGIA Institute > of TECHnology >
