Using JDK 11 to develop apps with the Atlassian SDK is not yet supported
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Summary
Using JDK 11 with the Atlassian SDK is not yet supported - AMPS-1541.
Environment
Atlassian SDK <= 8.2 ( as of this article, see bug report for eventual version supporting JDK 11 ).
Diagnosis
Attempting to compile with the Atlassian SDK and JDK 11 results in the following:
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$ rm -rf target && atlas-package
[INFO] Project POM found
Executing:
/Applications/Atlassian/atlassian-plugin-sdk-8.2.6/apache-maven-3.5.4/bin/mvn
package -gs
/Applications/Atlassian/atlassian-plugin-sdk-8.2.6/apache-maven-3.5.4/conf/settings.xml
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.base/java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:167)
at java.base/java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:72)
at org.twdata.maven.trap.Dispatcher.getInterceptorsResourceBufferedReader(Dispatcher.java:67)
at org.twdata.maven.trap.Dispatcher.getMavenInterceptors(Dispatcher.java:45)
at org.twdata.maven.trap.Dispatcher.main(Dispatcher.java:21)
at org.twdata.maven.trap.App.main(App.java:18)
Solution
Continue using JDK 8 to compile. The resulting app should work in JDK 11 without issue
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