

It usually appears in Maven Central sooner that the smaller JAR. There is a larger JAR (5.3MB) with contains the same functionality that is officially uploaded by Eclipse. One or more volunteers upload the JAR and it typically appears 2-4 weeks after the Eclipse release. The root cause of the issue is that the small (~2MB) JDT JAR we use is not officially released to Maven Central by Eclipse.


There have been problems in this area in the past such as bug 50604. Tomcat can be configured to use javac if running on a JDK but that has proved problematic in the past - mainly around ensuring that tools.jar is on the class path.įor folks that use Tomcat with Maven in embedded mode it is important that the Maven dependencies are valid and correct. This ensures JSP compilation works out of the box. Tomcat depends on JDT to enable it to support the compilation of JSPs while running on a JRE.
