This has been discussed at VERY great length at this point on this mailing list.
In 12.0, from beta 4 onwards, only if you’re running on JDK 8 will you need to install nb-javac. Please spend some time looking through this mailing list around this topic, including the purpose of nb-javac, everything has been repeated enough times at this point. Gj On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 19:13, Kenneth Fogel <kfo...@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> wrote: > Just loaded up Beta 3 and of course it desperately want to load nb-javac 2 > (possibly 2.1). Loaded up a project that used Java 14 record and it > declared it an error with no hope for redemption. Deleted all the nb-javac > files from the C:\devapp\NB\USERDIR\12.0-beta3\modules folder (I prefer my > USERDIR and CACHE where I can find them easily) and then NB was happy with > Java 14's compiler and with records after asking me if I wanted to use > preview features.. > > Could someone point me to where I could learn what the advantage of > nb-javac is over javac? > > Ken > >
