Why doesn't NetBeans find package com.apple.eawt when doing Clean and Build?
My NetBeans IDE responds "package com.apple.eawt doesn’t exist" when I select Clean and Build Project but works fine when I select Run Project.
I have a Java 8 application targeting OS X. To trigger the Window Listener when the user selects Quit from the menu I have the following code:
import com.apple.eawt.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class AppleUI extends JFrame {
public AppleUI() { JPanel panel = new JPanel(); panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 200)); this.add(panel); Application.getApplication().setQuitStrategy(QuitStrategy.CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS); addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() { public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) { System.out.println("Quitting"); System.exit(0); } }); this.setVisible(true); this.pack();
}
public static void main(String[] args) { new AppleUI();
}
}The application works fine when I select Run Project in NetBeans. However, when I select Clean and Build Project or Test Project I get the following error: ”package com.apple.eawt does not exist”.
Consequently I get ”cannot find symbol” errors for Application and QuitStrategy as well.
I find this very strange. The package com.apple.eawt is located in rt.jar together with all other Java runtime classes. Why doesn’t NetBeans recognize this when doing Clean and Build? What do I do wrong?
I’m using JDK 1.8.0_91 and NetBeans IDE 8.1. Thanks for help!
21 Answer
Answering my own question...
After a lot of research I found out that the compiler isn't looking for the package in the rt.jar but in a symbol file called ct.sym, which only contains the standard Java packages.
It is possible to ignore the symbol file using the compiler option -XDignore.symbol.file, however this seems not to be the recommended solution.
Instead I have rewritten the code in a way that I don't use the com.apple.eawt package but system properties.
//Application.getApplication().setQuitStrategy(QuitStrategy.CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS);
System.setProperty("apple.eawt.quitStrategy", "CLOSE_ALL_WINDOWS");See also here.
