I encountered the same and thought it has something to do with my
virtual machine on OSX.
Is this reproducable on other platforms, too?
Am 23.06.2009 um 21:02 schrieb Jesse Glick:
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
>> What does this message in the log mean? I've seen it in both 6.7 and
>> dailies of "the IDE soon to be known as 6.8":
>> Changing source level to 1.3Even though the source level
>> of /home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix-base/src:/home/glennh/netbeans/
>> phoenix-util/src:/home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix-util/test:/home/
>> glennh/netbeans/phoenix/csi/src/java:/home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix/
>> csi/test:/home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix/csi/web:/home/glennh/
>> netbeans/phoenix/phoenix-ejb/src/java:/home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix/
>> phoenix-ejb/test:/home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix/phoenix-war/src/
>> java:/home/glennh/netbeans/phoenix/phoenix-war/test:/home/glennh/
>> netbeans/phoenix/phoenix-war/web:/home/glennh/netbeans/weycogroup/
>> src:/java/log4j-1.2.15/src/main/java/org/apache:/mnt/common/
>> netbeans-6.8/java2/docs/junit-4.5-src.jar:/usr/lib/java/src.zip is
>> set to: 1.6, java.lang.AssertionError cannot be found on the
>> bootclasspath: Changing source level to 1.3
>
> Not sure. I encountered this myself and enhanced the message in
> d721e935e952 (previously it had no details).
>
> It may mean that your project is misconfigured - note the empty
> bootclasspath. Is this a freeform project? Please file a bug report
> in java/source, CC jglick, and add any details to reproduce you
> might have and can share in public (e.g. project.xml).
>
> If in fact the immediate symptom is an empty bootcp, changing source
> level from 1.6 to 1.3 is not going to help anything. The current
> code tests for AssertionError to see if the bootcp is 1.4+, but it
> should really first check for java.lang.Object to see if the bootcp
> is valid at all.
>