Thanks Jon, I just tried that and it does let it compile. I use NetBeans so I included that in the project properties as a compiler option. Although it does compile, NetBeans is still showing the imports as in error. Is there any easy way to get Netbeans to do the same thing?
Thanks, Raymond On 12 Apr 2014, at 20:06, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 04/12/2014 11:44 AM, Raymond Howie wrote: >> I’ve installed Java 8 from the Oracle site onto my Mac which is running >> 10.9.2 Any of my apps which use the Apple Java Extensions come up with this >> error message. >> >> I’ve had a look in rt.jar and the classes are listed in there. I even tried >> building OpenJDK 8 from the source but get the same error. >> >> Any idea what is going on or how I can fix it? >> >> Raymond Howie >> > > By default, javac does not read classes from rt.jar. It reads then from a > separate symbol file, which only contains standard API. > > You might try disabling the mechanism with unsupported javac option > -XDignore.symbol.file=true and see if that fixes your issues. > > -- Jon > >
