trouble building top level axis2 with jdk11 with source and target set to jdk1.8

[Andrew Marlow]

Hello everyone,

I just tried to build axis2 1.7.9 on linux with openJDK11. I am running
into some problems and need a little help/guidance please.

First, I saw that in the top level pom we have:

            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <inherited>true</inherited>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.5</source>
                    <target>1.5</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

I had to change the 1.5 to 1.8. Then I got the error:

[ERROR]
/home/marlowa/mystuff/axis2-build/axis2-1.7.9/modules/adb/src/org/apache/axis2/rpc/receivers/ejb/EJBUtil.java:[161,37]
package javax.rmi does not exist

I note that rmi is removed in JDK11. Does this mean that axis2 must be
built in older versions, e.g. 1.8?

-- 
Regards,

Andrew Marlow
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk