Try to fork and use javac from path in MavenImporter if compiler is not found ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: SHRINKRES-205 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SHRINKRES-205 Project: ShrinkWrap Resolvers Issue Type: Enhancement Components: maven Affects Versions: 2.2.0-alpha-2 Reporter: Karel Piwko Assignee: Karel Piwko Fix For: 2.2.0-beta-1 In cases MavenImporter does not find Javac class, IDE is probably set to run on top of JRE instead of JDK. In such cases, MavenImporter can emit a warning and modify configuration to fork and use javac from $PATH. Such approach will make compilation more robust. See https://gist.github.com/kpiwko/626ed1c04ac28354137d for a quick idea how it could work.