IReport incompatibility with Java 8 [closed]

Question

I have installed Java 8 in my PC (actually, its the only JDK installed) and I have iReport version 5.1.0.

Once I run iReport nothing happened. It did not run at all.

I think there is an incompatibility with the 2 technologies. I have searched and found out in a a certain forum that even the latest version of iReport doesn't support Java 8.

How true is this? If this is true, how long will it take for iReport new release to support Java 8? Is there any alternative tools for me to use in reporting?

I am using Netbeans 8.0.

Answer 1

Go to

window->Preferences->java-compiler

Change compiler compliance level: to 1.7,1.6 etc which is compatible with report.