error: package com.apple.eawt does not exist

[Raymond Howie]

I’ve installed Java 8 from the Oracle site onto my Mac which is running 10.9.2  Any of my apps which use the Apple Java Extensions come up with this error message.

I’ve had a look in rt.jar and the classes are listed in there.  I even tried building OpenJDK 8 from the source but get the same error.

Any idea what is going on or how I can fix it?

Raymond Howie