How to use Java11 (Java10) with Eclipse Plugin?

Question

If I specify JavaSE-10 as minimum execution environment in my Eclipse plugin:

I get following errors when starting my plugin as Eclipse Application:

Answer 1

It looks like Eclipse OSGi does not support Java SE 10 yet. I downloaded the latest Eclipse Oxygen 4.7.3a and opened plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.12.100.v20180210-1608.jar. The last supported profile was JavaSE-9.

So, you have two choices here:

• Wait until OSGi officially supports JavaSE-10 profile.
• If you really want to write a plugin with Java 10 and you have control over the plugins folder (e.g. you develop an Eclipse RCP application), open the OSGI jar and add a new profile JavaSE-10. To do this, you can copy JavaSE-9.profile to JavaSE-10.profile and fix corresponding lines in the new file. Also, you must add a new line to profile.list.