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NetBeans are passing arguments to javac that are not supported in javac compilers of version 1.4, so these projects configured to use java platform 1.4 can't be compiled anymore. It was not happening in NetBeans 6.0 M9. The problem should be the argument -Djava.endorsed.dirs See log below: init: deps-clean: Deleting directory C:\projetos\Jas\dist clean: init: deps-jar: Compiling 578 source files to C:\projetos\Jas\src javac: invalid flag: -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\NetBeans6.0M10\java1\modules\ext\jaxws21\api Usage: javac <options> <source files> where possible options include: -g Generate all debugging info -g:none Generate no debugging info -g:{lines,vars,source} Generate only some debugging info -nowarn Generate no warnings -verbose Output messages about what the compiler is doing -deprecation Output source locations where deprecated APIs are used -classpath <path> Specify where to find user class files -sourcepath <path> Specify where to find input source files -bootclasspath <path> Override location of bootstrap class files -extdirs <dirs> Override location of installed extensions -d <directory> Specify where to place generated class files -encoding <encoding> Specify character encoding used by source files -source <release> Provide source compatibility with specified release -target <release> Generate class files for specific VM version -help Print a synopsis of standard options BUILD FAILED (total time: 7 seconds)
This does not only affect JDK 1.4 apps, nor only java projects. I have a web application that is built using IBM's 1.3.1 JDK, which was building fine in Netbeans 5.5. I opened it up in Netbeans 6.0 M10 and it refuses to build, giving the error quoted below. The main difference I could find is that when I edited the project properties to resolve the missing J2EE Server (by selecting Tomcat 6.0.13 instead of 5.5.17 that was in the settings previously) Netbeans has added the line <compilerarg line="-Djava.endorsed.dirs='@{jaxwsendorsed}'"/> into the javac macro definition in -init-macrodef-javac in build-impl.xml In my opinion, this should be more than a P3; even if it does not happen with later JDKs, migrating to a different JDK version is not a viable option for most projects (else they would surely have done so already). Whether the blame lies with Netbeans or with Ant 1.7.0's javac task not filtering out the unsupported option is debatable, but either way the end result is that projects which built in NB 5.5 no longer do so.
Duplicate of issue #108832. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 108832 ***