Dependency on tools.jar should be expressed with profiles

The POM for org.apache.maven.plugin-tools, org.apache.maven.plugin-tools, Version 2.9 asserts a dependency on the JDK's tools.jar like this:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
  <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.2</version>
  <scope>system</scope>
  <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>

This caused build path failures on my windows system that m2eclipse simply was not able to resolve, despite my use of the JDK, finally had to give up. I also note that on a Mac it will never work. Compare with the approach taken by artifact log4j, group log4j, version 1.2.16 for a tools.jar dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>sun.jdk</groupId>
  <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
  <version>1.4.2</version>
  <scope>system</scope>
  <systemPath>${tools.jar}</systemPath>
</dependency>

This "tools.jar" variable is defined in terms of machine profiles.

Thanks for listening.