Some time, we have installed multiple java version in Mac like Java 1.8 and java 11.0 and default version is java 8 but we are trying to start ant clean or ant all with above Hybris Sap commence 2205 version. We will have below error due to wrong java version.
/Volumes/work/cmpe/et-commerce/core-customize/hybris/bin/platform/build.xml:9: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Volumes/work/cmpe/et-commerce/core-customize/hybris/bin/platform/resources/ant/antmacros.xml:50: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: de/hybris/ant/taskdefs/gradle/GenerateGradleProjectTask has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:756)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.defineClassFromData(AntClassLoader.java:1153)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.getClassFromStream(AntClassLoader.java:1321)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.findClassInComponents(AntClassLoader.java:1373)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.findClass(AntClassLoader.java:1338)
at org.apache.tools.ant.AntClassLoader.loadClass(AntClassLoader.java:1093)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Definer.addDefinition(Definer.java:569)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Definer.loadProperties(Definer.java:401)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Definer.execute(Definer.java:263)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:99)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:350)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:449)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelper2.parse(ProjectHelper2.java:173)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ImportTask.importResource(ImportTask.java:221)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ImportTask.execute(ImportTask.java:165)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:99)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:350)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:449)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelper2.parse(ProjectHelper2.java:184)
at org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.configureProject(ProjectHelper.java:104)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:802)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:223)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:284)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:101)
Open Terminal in Mac and check java version using “Java -version” command. You can see above. its was expected java 11 in Hybirs 2205 but default set to Java 8 which is not compatibility that why there was build failed. You can refer to how to set default Java version.