Javassist 3.5.SNAPSHOT Maven2 POM broken on Mac OS X

[manik]

I've been playing around with maven2, using it to include microcontainer dependencies into JBoss Cache, and see the following:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

Missing:
----------
1) com.sun:tools:jar:1.5

 Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

 Then, install it using the command:
 mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.sun -DartifactId=tools \
 -Dversion=1.5 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

 Path to dependency:
 1) jboss:jbc21test:jar:2.1
 2) jboss:jboss-aop-mc-int:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
 3) jboss:jboss-aop:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
 4) javassist:javassist:jar:3.5-SNAPSHOT
 5) com.sun:tools:jar:1.5

Googling around for a bit, I see the following that are relevant:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-806
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-869
http://maven.apache.org/general.html#tools-jar-dependency
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java14Development/02-JavaDevTools/JavaDevTools.html

The problem with defining tools.jar as a dependency - even as a "system" scope dependency - is that this is only specific to Sun JDKs. Other JDKs (like Apple, which I use) have tools.jar classes in the Classes.jar archive, which is already in your classpath.

Basically, from what I gathered, this block in javassist's pom should only be enabled if the vendor name includes Sun Microsystems:

<profiles>
 <profile>
 <id>jdk14</id>
 <activation>
 <jdk>1.4</jdk>
 </activation>
 <dependencies>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
 <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
 <version>1.4</version>
 <scope>system</scope>
 <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
 </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 </profile>
 <profile>
 <id>jdk15</id>
 <activation>
 <jdk>1.5</jdk>
 </activation>
 <dependencies>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
 <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
 <version>1.5</version>
 <scope>system</scope>
 <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
 </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 </profile>
 </profiles>

Cheers,
Manik