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Created attachment 151678 [details] NetBeans build log. Whenever I try to build NetBeans from sources, using the mainline version from the Mercurial repository, the build fails with the error listed in the summary. I am using JDK 1.8.0_31, Windows 7 X64, and am running ant like so: C:\nb> ant -l c:\nb-build.log -Dpermit.jdk8.builds=true I have tried cleaning the build tree multiple times (via ant clean) and rebuilding, but I can't get any further than javascript2.editor. Attached is my entire build log for analysis.
Build with JDK 1.7, AFAIK it's impossible to build whole IDE with 1.8.
As Ondra mentioned, we need to do some changes to be able to build NetBeans with JDK 1.8. Is there any obstacle from your side to build NetBeans with JDK 1.7? I'm closing this issue as wontfix for now.