We're running macOS Mojave, fully updated, with amazon Corretto 8 JDK. When users launch Oracle's SQLDevelper app while plugged into their Targus DisplayLink docks, the app crashes 100% of the time. The SQLDeveloper app is built on Java so this definitely counts as a problem. I tried using the DisplayLinkJavaTest.jar, but I get the following error when I try to run the test:
Code:
java -jar DisplayLinkJavaTest.jar
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Main has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 53.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:495)
We cannot upgrade to JDK 14 due to contractual and security constraints.This is a major problem for us. We just bought 170 Targus docks and we can't use a single one because of this mission critical app crashing.