'mx igv' not working on JDK 8, here's why

[Garcia Gutierrez Miguel Alfredo]

The stack trace

     [exec] java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.openide.util.WeakListenerImpl$ProxyListener can not access a member of class org.openide.filesystems.$Proxy0 with modifiers "public"
     [exec]     at org.openide.util.WeakListenerImpl$ProxyListener.<init>(WeakListenerImpl.java:423)
     [exec]     at org.openide.util.WeakListenerImpl.create(WeakListenerImpl.java:164)
     [exec]     at org.openide.util.WeakListeners.create(WeakListeners.java:271)
     [exec]     at org.openide.filesystems.MultiFileObject.<init>(MultiFileObject.java:125)
     [exec]     at org.openide.filesystems.MultiFileObject.<init>(MultiFileObject.java:142)
     [exec]     at org.openide.filesystems.MultiFileSystem.getMultiRoot(MultiFileSystem.java:267)
     [exec]     at org.openide.filesystems.MultiFileSystem.findResource(MultiFileSystem.java:355)
     [exec]     at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.getConfigFile(FileUtil.java:2227)
     [exec]     at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.getConfigRoot(FileUtil.java:2257)
     [exec]     at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Main.java:162)
     [exec]     at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:308)
     [exec]     at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:123)
     [exec]     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
     [exec] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.openide.util.WeakListenerImpl$ProxyListener can not access a member of class org.openide.filesystems.$Proxy0 with modifiers "public"
     [exec]     at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:93)
     [exec]     at java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.slowCheckMemberAccess(AccessibleObject.java:295)
     [exec]     at java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkAccess(AccessibleObject.java:287)
     [exec]     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:404)
     [exec]     at org.openide.util.WeakListenerImpl$ProxyListener.<init>(WeakListenerImpl.java:413)
     [exec]     ... 12 more
     [exec] Result: 2


is reported in .ideal_graph_visualizer.log

which leads to https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229191

That ticket mentions it's been fixed as of NetBeans IDE 7.3.1 (Build 201305082200)

Looks like mx is downloading an older version.


Miguel

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Miguel Garcia
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
EPFL - IC - LAMP1 - INR 328 - Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne - Switzerland
http://lamp.epfl.ch/~magarcia/