Warning: Cannot use jsr199 Javac from jrt-fs.jar"

[Keimpe Bronkhorst]

Alan,
If the user's project's JDK has a higher version than the JDK of 
JDeveloper, the compile is done out-of-process. Otherwise an in-process 
JSR199 is attempted.
Yes, -source/-target/-Xbootclasspath (and now -release) for 
cross-compiling is another way, but it doesn't use the Javac of the 
user's project's JDK. The user can easily set up a cross-compile in 
JDeveloper, but some users want to use the actual Javac of their 
project's JDK.

Keimpe Bronkhorst
JDeveloper


On 10/8/2015 1:36 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
>
> On 08/10/2015 17:47, Keimpe Bronkhorst wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> Users of JDeveloper want to be able to compile and run their code with
>> any JDK on their filesystem, not just compile and run with the JDK
>> JDeveloper is running on.
> I'm curious about this. If JDeveloper is running on JDK 7 for example 
> and someone configures it to use a JDK 8 then would you have attempted 
> to load from the JDK 8 tools.jar in that case? As JDK 7 doesn't know 
> anything about 52.0 class files then I assume not.
>
> So maybe the loading from the target tools.jar was when the target JDK 
> is the same or older than the version that the IDE is running? In that 
> case I'm curious as to whether it can be made to use 
> -source/-target/-Xbootclasspath instead of attempt to run the javac 
> from the target JDK in the same VM. On JDK 9 then you have the 
> wonderful new -release option to try too.
>
> -Alan.