Maven repackaging of part of OpenJDK's langtools, for the Compiler.
Available for Java 8, the repackaging mirrors the Java 9 module structure for jdk.compiler, using the contents of jdk8's langtools.
When you include the JDK's tools.jar in your Maven POM:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun</groupId>
<artifactId>tools</artifactId>
<version>${version.java}</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
SonarQube 6.4 will display (Squid S3422):
Instead you may replace with:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.earcam.wrapped</groupId>
<artifactId>jdk.compiler</artifactId>
<version>1.8.132</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
Need something else from tools.jar? There's another project com.sun.tools.attach repackaging com.sun.tools.attach and com.sun.tools.attach.spi as a Maven dependency. (This may be out-of-date, so check Maven central for the groupId io.earcam.wrapped, for other possible libraries wrapped for Maven).
To build run with mvn -P '!strict' clean install', the javadoc generation takes ages as it generates tonnes of UML diagrams
