#1430 Illegal reflective access operation exception in Java Viewer

[Darren Spruell]

Attempting to use TightVNC Java Viewer version 2.8.3 on macOS 10.13 in Java 9:

java version "9.0.1"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9.0.1+11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9.0.1+11, mixed mode)

$ java -jar Downloads/tvnjviewer-2.8.3-bin-gnugpl/tightvnc-jviewer.jar -port=5902 server01
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.glavsoft.viewer.swing.mac.MacApplicationWrapper (file:/Users/dspruell/Downloads/tvnjviewer-2.8.3-bin-gnugpl/tightvnc-jviewer.jar
) to method com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.glavsoft.viewer.swing.mac.MacApplicationWrapper
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.glavsoft.viewer.swing.mac.MacApplicationWrapper.setEnabledAboutMenu(MacApplicationWrapper.java:95)
        at com.glavsoft.viewer.Viewer.main(Viewer.java:84)

[Jason Wilson]

Getting same error with same Java version - any ideas?

[Khaldoon Sinjab]

Getting same error with Java version "10.0.2"

[Doug Cox]

Any update! Who maintains glavsoft?

java --version
java 11.0.1 2018-10-16 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.1+13-LTS)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.1+13-LTS, mixed mode)
m-c02pg1etfvh6:Desktop dcox$ java -jar tightvnc-jviewer\ 2.jar
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.glavsoft.viewer.swing.mac.MacApplicationWrapper (file:~/Desktop/tightvnc-jviewer%202.jar) to method com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.glavsoft.viewer.swing.mac.MacApplicationWrapper
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.glavsoft.viewer.swing.mac.MacApplicationWrapper.setEnabledAboutMenu(MacApplicationWrapper.java:95)
at com.glavsoft.viewer.Viewer.main(Viewer.java:84)

[James Martin]

Still getting the the "illegal reflective access operation" error. ... is this every going to get fixed?