Invalid flag when running java and javac command flags

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Sat Dec 12 08:49:47 UTC 2015


On 11/12/2015 20:44, José Guilherme Macedo Vieira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting an invalid flag error when running these commands:
>
>
>     - java -listmods
>     - javac - javac -modulepath mods -d
>     %COM_GREETINGS_FOLDER%\src\com.greetings\module-info.java
>     src\com.greetings\com/greetings/Main.java
>
> The errors says that listmods and modulepath are invalid flags. Anyone
> knows how to solve it?
>
Make sure you have the right download as the JDK 9 EA builds with the 
module system / Project Jigsaw is currently a different download [1]. In 
time then the module system will work its way into the regular JDK 9 
downloads, just not there yet.

-Alan

[1] https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/


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