Fail to build examples with gradle on Kafka using JDK 8

[Philippe Derome]

The issue had apparently existed and is apparently resolved, but so far it
does not work for me: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2203.

I issue same command as Stevo Slavic with JDK 1.8.0_91:
gradle clean jarAll

java -version

java version "*1.8.0_91*"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-b14)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)


Much of it builds save for the examples, which incidentally is what I am
mostly interested in.


:core:jar UP-TO-DATE

:examples:compileJava

warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source
1.7

/Users/philippederome/workspace/kafka/examples/src/main/java/kafka/examples/Consumer.java:19:
error: package kafka.utils does not exist

import kafka.utils.ShutdownableThread;

                  ^

/Users/philippederome/workspace/kafka/examples/src/main/java/kafka/examples/Consumer.java:28:
error: cannot find symbol

public class Consumer extends ShutdownableThread {

                              ^

  symbol: class ShutdownableThread

/Users/philippederome/workspace/kafka/examples/src/main/java/kafka/examples/SimpleConsumerDemo.java:19:
error: package kafka.api does not exist

import kafka.api.FetchRequest;

Phil Derome