Geertjan, the code needs a few classes from the compiler tree API (e.g. com.sun.source.util - TreePath, Trees, etc). I looked around but couldn't find what dependency to add to the project instead. It seems that those classes are still available in newer SDKs, but the compilation fails in them.
Cheers - Alex K On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:53 AM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > Why specifically is tools.jar needed, any way to avoid that? I don’t think > it matters much if you end up requiring JDK 8. It’s a good one. :-) > > Gj > > > On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 04:39, Alex Kotchnev <akoch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The scala plugin that I'm trying to upgrade to Java 11 ( >> https://github.com/akochnev/ak_nbscala/tree/nb11-remove-impl-deps) has >> a system dependency on tools.jar from the JDK. That jar was removed from >> the JDK (in Java 9, I think), and because of that, I can only compile the >> plugin with Java 8. I looked around but didn't really find a way to replace >> that dependency - it seems like Java 11 still somehow includes those >> classes, but they're no longer in a jar file. >> >> Any tips on how to best proceed with replacing this dependency with >> whatever would work in java 11 ? >> >> Cheers - Alex K >> >
