Producing Java 1.6 jasper files using Java 1.7 in an Ant build

[tmclean]

I'm trying to produce jasper files which will work when my web start application is run on a user compuer running Java 1.6.  The twist is that my Ant build (running under Hudson) needs to use Java 1.7 for steps other than the jasper reports compiler ("jrc").  For javac I simply add the attributes source="1.6" and target="1.6".  What can I do to have the same effect with jrc?

 

I have tried using the following properties by setting them in a jasperreports.properties file and placing the file in the working directory of the Ant build.  This seemed to have no effect.

org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.6

org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.6

org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.TargetPlatform=1.6

 

When I attempt to use one of the jasper files as a user I get the following exception:

Exception in thread "AbstractThreadedAction" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: FormEntryMaster_1371132769401_879595 : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRClassLoader.loadClass(JRClassLoader.java:338)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRClassLoader.loadClassFromBytes(JRClassLoader.java:239)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRAbstractJavaCompiler.loadEvaluator(JRAbstractJavaCompiler.java:102)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.design.JRAbstractCompiler.loadEvaluator(JRAbstractCompiler.java:340)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.getEvaluator(JasperCompileManager.java:265)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.createCalculator(JRFillDataset.java:457)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.<init>(JRBaseFiller.java:382)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:88)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:103)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:61)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.createFiller(JRFiller.java:153)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fill(JRFiller.java:82)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fill(JasperFillManager.java:653)

at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:969)

at com.ibl.client.form.FormPrintBuilder.createFormEntry(FormPrintBuilder.java:394)

at com.ibl.client.form.FormPrintBuilder.createPrint(FormPrintBuilder.java:288)

at com.ibl.client.form.FormEntryTablePanel$10.inBackgroundThread(FormEntryTablePanel.java:685)

at com.ibl.client.custom.AbstractThreadedAction$EventProcessor.run(AbstractThreadedAction.java:75)

at com.ibl.client.custom.AbstractThreadedAction$QueueRunner.run(AbstractThreadedAction.java:54)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

 

Using Java 1.6.0_33 (on user computer), Java 1.7.0_21 (for Ant build), JasperReports 5.1.0, Ant 1.9.1, Hudson 1.395.1, 

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

Tom

[lucianc]

Do you have a JDT jar on your build classpath?

Also, jasperreports.properties should be in a directory that is part of the classpath, putting it in the current directory would not necessarily work.

Regards,

Lucian

[tmclean]

That was the answer - Thanks!

 

For others: I placed a plain text file jasperreports.properties with the above property entries into the classpath for the jrc step. I found the JDT compiler jar jdt-compiler-3.1.1.jar in the lib directory of the jasper projects file jasperreports-5.1.2-project.zip. I placed it in the classpath also.

 

Tom