Maven Dependency Processor does not resolve ${java.home}

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      We have a project that imports BOMs from jboss (Kie, jbpm...) one of these boms has the artifact org.jboss:jboss-parent:11:jar as its parent.
      This POM has the following lines:

        <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
        <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
        <scope>system</scope>
        <version>1.6</version>
        <systemPath>${com.sun.tools.path}</systemPath>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>

      The property com.sun.tools.path is defined in the same POM as ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar.
      When the Maven Dependency Processor Task is executed, it fails with the following message:

       error	10-Jun-2015 11:49:38	Automatic Maven plan dependencies processing failed: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
 [ERROR] 'dependencyManagement.dependencies.dependency.systemPath' for com.sun:tools:jar must specify an absolute path but is ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar @ org.jboss:jboss-parent:11, D:\maven_repository\.m2\repository\org\jboss\jboss-parent\11\jboss-parent-11.pom, line 171, column 21
 [ERROR] 'dependencyManagement.dependencies.dependency.systemPath' for com.sun:tools:jar must specify an absolute path but is ${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar @ org.jboss:jboss-parent:11, D:\maven_repository\.m2\repository\org\jboss\jboss-parent\11\jboss-parent-11.pom, line 171, column 21

      I tried to override the value for com.sun.tools.path in the settings, but that doesn't seem to have any effect, not even in Maven (checked with help:effective-pom).

      I added a dependency management for the sun.com:tools before importing the boms, that results in a correct effective pom. but the dependency processor still fails with the same message

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            Reporter:
            Martin Goldhahn
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