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[Solved] Maven: No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK

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This maven exception occurs  when your Window/Unix environment variable for JAVA_HOME and PATH are pointing to JRE instead of JDK. That’s why maven will not compile code and throw below exception.

Problem

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building SpringBootApp 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO] Downloading: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-install-plugin/2.5.2/maven-install-plugin-2.5.2.pom
[INFO] Downloaded: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-install-plugin/2.5.2/maven-install-plugin-2.5.2.pom (7 KB at 2.3 KB/sec)
[INFO] Downloading: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-plugins/25/maven-plugins-25.pom
[INFO] Downloaded: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-plugins/25/maven-plugins-25.pom (10 KB at 10.2 KB/sec)
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:3.0.1:resources (default-resources) @ SpringBootApp ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.7.0:compile (default-compile) @ SpringBootApp ---
[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to D:\Saurabh Gupta\facingIssuesOnIT\SpringBootApp\target\classes
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[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
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[ERROR] No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?
[INFO] 1 error
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 5.342 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-05-28T15:59:31+05:30
[INFO] Final Memory: 20M/209M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.7.0:compile (default-compile) on project SpringBootApp: Compilation failure
[ERROR] No compiler is provided in this environment. Perhaps you are running on a JRE rather than a JDK?
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
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[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
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[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Solutions

To resolve this issue you can follow below steps by solving command prompt or Eclipse.

Command Prompt

How to Configure Maven in Window and Linux?

Eclipse

  • Right click on project -> Select Properties
  • Select Java Build Path-> Libraries Tab -> Click on Add Library
  • Refer below link for reference.

Eclipse : How to set java path of JDK/JRE?