Thanks for finding that out. Some trickery to get a java8 tools.jar available might work but would be awfully unstable, needing path names.

    Andy

Warning - switching build for java9, not just build with java9 for java8, crashed Eclipse for me in such a way I had to delete the workspace and rebuild but I had been chopping and changing git branches and java versions so not entirely fair.

On 03/02/18 09:17, Lorenz B. wrote:
The Hadoop libs, even the latest major release version 3.0.0, are still
based on Java 7 resp. Java 8, see [1]

Thus, it could be a blocker.


Cheers,

Lorenz


[1]
http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/hadoop/hadoop-annotations/3.0.0/hadoop-annotations-3.0.0.pom


On 02.02.2018 19:02, Andy Seaborne wrote:
JENA-1475

I've managed to the build working with java9, outputting java8
compatible classes.

PR#350.
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/350

This is using Apache parent v18 (so not JENA-1474)

but

1/ -Pdev build

Works:

   mvn clean install -Pdev

because it sets -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true

2/Full build, jaavdoc

javadoc fails at jena-core (despite it compiled). The problem is
java.xml.bind - it looks to me like the javadoc is running in "java9"
mode and I haven't found out how to override that.

3/ Full build, no javadoc

   mvn clean install -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true

runs until jena-elephas-common.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project jena-elephas-common:
Could not resolve dependencies for project
org.apache.jena:jena-elephas-common:jar:3.7.0-SNAPSHOT:
Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path
/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/../lib/tools.jar -> [Help 1]

which comes from

[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:jar:2.6.0:provided
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-annotations:jar:2.6.0:provided
[INFO] |  |  \- jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6:system

     Andy


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