[MNG-3481] FAQ: My project compiles in Eclipse and not Maven. Why is Maven broken?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: Documentation Deficit
• Component/s: Documentation: FAQ
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wayne Fay
• Created: 24/Mar/08 10:23
• Updated: 31/Jan/15 13:35
• Resolved: 19/Jan/14 18:06

Description

We see a fair number of emails on the Users list claiming "my project builds in Eclipse but not Maven". It would be nice to post something about this in the FAQ, perhaps along these lines:

Q: My project compiles in Eclipse and not Maven. Why is Maven broken?
A: Eclipse has its own compiler (JDT) that does things differently than Maven (which uses your JDK's javac). Try compiling your project with javac from the JDK and specifying your dependencies with -cp. If this works, then Maven should have no issues compiling it either.

You can see more info in this (and other) threads:
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: package does not exit error with 3rd party jar dependency
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:13:08 +0100