[NETBEANSINFRA-14] Cannot create Installer for Netbeans RCP Application using JDK 11

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: NBM Maven Plugin 4.3
• Fix Version/s: NBM Maven Plugin 4.4
• Component/s: MU - Apache NetBeans NBM maven plugin
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Environment: Windows 10 Pro 1903 ; OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 11.0.3+7)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Frederic Simons
• Created: 17/Jul/19 15:35
• Updated: 03/Jun/20 16:52
• Resolved: 09/Jan/20 13:20

Description

Setup:

Netbeans version 11 - 11.1 VC-2

JDK 11 (latest from AdoptOpenJDK)

 

1. Create a Netbeans Platform based Application with Maven.

2. Choose Netbeans Platform RELEASE110

After Project creation set Source/Binary format to Java 11 (either via Project Properties or directly in pom.xml)

3. Build all Modules: All Modules and The Project Application compile cleanly with JDK11

4. Execute the maven goal nbm build installers maven failes with the following exception:

error: Source option 5 is no longer supported. Use 6 or later.
error: Target option 1.5 is no longer supported. Use 1.6 or later.

followed by a BUILD FAILURE and a stack trace from maven.

 

I don't know if this is a bug in a background ant task or from the maven-nbm-plugin or the ide-itself.

A current work around ist to build all modules wth java 11 (and therefore JDK11) and only use JDK 8 with source/target support of Java-8 for the actual Application module. With this setup All modules build and can use java 11 features and the Application installers can still be generated. It would be nice if this would also be possible using JDK-11 so one does not need to have several jdk installed.

 

Kind regards,

Frederic Simons

 
 

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: NETBEANS-2087 Failure on Creating Installers
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1414