Bug: Can not start NetBeans 7.3 with JDK 8

Question

I have NetBeans 7.3 and I upgraded my JDK to 1.8. Now I tried to open NetBeans and was getting Loading Cached Objects message on its loading window and then NetBeans got terminated.

I was getting following exception (available in \var\log\messages.log file):

java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.openide.util.WeakListenerImpl$ProxyListener can not access a member of class org.openide.filesystems.$Proxy0 with modifiers "public"

What is the probable reason?

Answer 1

Its a bug in NetBeans 7.3 and the details of this can be found here.

JDK 8 works with Netbeans 8+.

If you wish to continue using Netbeans 7.x with older version of Java revert JDK location in netbeans using following steps:

• Go to NetBeans installation inside you will find /etc folder
• Open netbeans.conf file of etc folder
• Change the path to earlier jdk version which is specified against netbeans_jdkhome property. Now open your NetBeans it will work.