private String bootClassPathToUse()

in maven-plugin/src/main/java/com/spotify/missinglink/maven/CheckMojo.java [491:510]

• 9 lines of code
• 2 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  private String bootClassPathToUse() {
    if (this.bootClasspath != null) {
      getLog().debug("using configured boot classpath: " + this.bootClasspath);
      return this.bootClasspath;
    }

    // Maven executes plugins with a customized ClassLoader to provide isolation between
    // plugins and the Maven installation. If we tried to inspect the 'java.class.path' property,
    // all we would see is a single entry for plexus-classworlds.jar.
    // (more info at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Maven+3.x+Class+Loading )
    //
    // To be able to load the Java platform classes (i.e. java.util.*), we have to look at the
    // bootstrap class path - not sure about the standard way to find this.
    // (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/findingclasses.html)
    // TODO 6/4/15 mbrown -- warn users that bootclasspath might be a different version (JAVA_HOME
    // probably) than what they use for javac
    final String bootClasspath = System.getProperty("sun.boot.class.path");
    getLog().debug("derived bootclasspath: " + bootClasspath);
    return bootClasspath;
  }