Question

I’m using Spring Tool Suite and m2e to convert some of our existing projects to Maven projects. The project in question uses jdk1.6.0_20 which is named [jdk1.6] in Eclipse. When I do Maven -> Update project, though, it replaces that jre with the standard [JavaSE-1.6]. While they seem to point to the same libraries, the change in name causes a bunch of exceptions like:

Access restriction: The type WindowsPopupMenuSeparatorUI is not
accessible due to restriction on required library C:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\jre\lib\rt.jar

My pom.xml has this:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <source>1.6</source>
        <target>1.6</target>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Is there any way to get Maven/m2e to use the default workspace JRE instead of replacing it with a specific one in the .classpath?

Answer 1

It turns out there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this with Maven. Instead I changed the error to a warning in Eclipse settings while I work with the owners of the offending code to fix the problems.