I'm using EJB 2.1, jdk 1.6 with Weblogic 11g for application development. Latest I have been process of deploying application in WebLogic 12c.
As I understood from online source, I need to have jdk 1.7 and higher to run application in weblogic 12c. I also getting below error, when I compile EJB 2.1 with JDK 1.7 or higher.
DEPRECATED: The weblogic.ejbc compiler is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of WebLogic Server. Please use weblogic.appc instead.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: weblogic.xml.babel.baseparser.BaseParser.setMaxAttrsPerElement(I)V
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamReaderBase.prime(XMLStreamReaderBase.java:89)
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamReaderBase.setInput(XMLStreamReaderBase.java:148)
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(XMLStreamInputFactory.java:322)
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(XMLStreamInputFactory.java:54)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.BasicMunger2.<init>(BasicMunger2.java:96)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.BasicMunger2.<init>(BasicMunger2.java:114)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.VersionMunger.<init>(VersionMunger.java:79)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.VersionMunger.<init>(VersionMunger.java:63)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.VersionMunger.<init>(VersionMunger.java:45)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbJarReader.<init>(EjbJarReader.java:46)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbJarLoader.createXMLStreamReader(EjbJarLoader.java:49)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.createDescriptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:438)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescriptorBeanWithoutPlan(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:832)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescriptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:841)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.processEjbJarXML(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:440)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:263)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:250)
at weblogic.ejb.spi.EjbDescriptorFactory.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorFactory.java:92)
at weblogic.ejbc20.getDescriptorFromJar(ejbc20.java:683)
at weblogic.ejbc20.runBody(ejbc20.java:455)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:159)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:116)
at weblogic.ejbc.main(ejbc.java:36)
at BuildEjbs.main(BuildEjbs.java:97)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: weblogic.xml.babel.baseparser.BaseParser.setMaxAttrsPerElement(I)V
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamReaderBase.prime(XMLStreamReaderBase.java:89)
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamReaderBase.setInput(XMLStreamReaderBase.java:148)
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(XMLStreamInputFactory.java:322)
at weblogic.xml.stax.XMLStreamInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(XMLStreamInputFactory.java:54)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.BasicMunger2.<init>(BasicMunger2.java:96)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.BasicMunger2.<init>(BasicMunger2.java:114)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.VersionMunger.<init>(VersionMunger.java:79)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.VersionMunger.<init>(VersionMunger.java:63)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.VersionMunger.<init>(VersionMunger.java:45)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbJarReader.<init>(EjbJarReader.java:46)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbJarLoader.createXMLStreamReader(EjbJarLoader.java:49)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.createDescriptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:438)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescriptorBeanWithoutPlan(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:832)
at weblogic.application.descriptor.AbstractDescriptorLoader2.loadDescriptorBean(AbstractDescriptorLoader2.java:841)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.processEjbJarXML(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:440)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:263)
at weblogic.ejb.container.metadata.EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorReaderImpl.java:250)
at weblogic.ejb.spi.EjbDescriptorFactory.createReadOnlyDescriptorFromJarFile(EjbDescriptorFactory.java:92)
at weblogic.ejbc20.getDescriptorFromJar(ejbc20.java:683)
at weblogic.ejbc20.runBody(ejbc20.java:455)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:159)
at weblogic.utils.compiler.Tool.run(Tool.java:116)
at weblogic.ejbc.main(ejbc.java:36)
at BuildEjbs.main(BuildEjbs.java:97)
Going to the <application> build directory
Deleting JAR files
*****FINISHED JAR AND EJBC FOR ALL THE EJBS*****
Is it possible to compile EJB 2.1 with JDK 1.6 or least version through deprecated way?