Java – Maven can’t compile class which depends on rt.jar

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CI-server (Hudson), for which I am responsible, builds Maven project. After the last commit, the build failed:

[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] \hudson\jobs\path to my class\MyClass.java:[33,62] package com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.packaging.mime.util does not exist
[ERROR] \hudson\jobs\path to my class\MyClass.java:[75,5] cannot find symbol
        symbol  : class BASE64EncoderStream
        location: class |fullname of MyClass|
[ERROR] \hudson\jobs\path to my class\MyClass.java:[75,38] cannot find symbol
        symbol  : class BASE64EncoderStream
        location: class |fullname of MyClass|
[INFO] 3 errors

Required class (com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.packaging.mime.util.BASE64EncoderStream) is situated in rt.jar.

I tried (In accordance with the instructions at http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#System_Dependencies) to add system dependency in project's pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>dummy</groupId>
    <artifactId>dummy</artifactId>
    <version>1</version>
    <scope>system</scope>
    <systemPath>${java.home}/lib/rt.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>

It did not help.

The most interesting is that all files compiled fine on the local machine of my collegue (he use Eclipse build-in compiler).

In internet I found the same question (link: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Why-can-t-Maven-find-com-sun-xml-internal-messaging-saaj-util-ByteOutputStream-class-td107361.html). The last answer was that the reason for this trouble is Oracle's Java compiler.

So, I changed Oracle's jdk to OpenJDK, but it did not help.

Does someone have any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Best Answer

Need to specify -XDignore.symbol.file and add rt.jar dependency and <fork>true</fork> as the compiler plugin will otherwise silently drop any -XD flags: e.g.

    ...
    <dependency>
        <groupId>groupid</groupId>
        <artifactId>artifiactId</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <systemPath>${java.home}/lib/rt.jar</systemPath>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.3</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
                <compilerArgs>
                    <arg>-XDignore.symbol.file</arg>
                </compilerArgs>
                <fork>true</fork>
            </configuration>
            ...
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