I recently started trying to get back into modding after having last done anything in 1.15. Now when I try to run the client with Java8 I get this error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: cpw/mods/bootstraplauncher/BootstrapLauncher has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 60.0), 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(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unknown Source)

Doing some research I found I needed to update to at least Java16 to fix this error. But when I do that I now get this error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at cpw.mods.niofs.union.UnionFileSystemProvider.newFileSystemInternal(UnionFileSystemProvider.java:115)
	at cpw.mods.niofs.union.UnionFileSystemProvider.newFileSystem(UnionFileSystemProvider.java:105)
	at cpw.mods.jarhandling.impl.Jar.<init>(Jar.java:84)
	at cpw.mods.jarhandling.SecureJar.from(SecureJar.java:70)
	at cpw.mods.jarhandling.SecureJar.from(SecureJar.java:66)
	at cpw.mods.jarhandling.SecureJar.from(SecureJar.java:58)
	at cpw.mods.jarhandling.SecureJar.from(SecureJar.java:50)
	at cpw.mods.bootstraplauncher.BootstrapLauncher.main(BootstrapLauncher.java:84)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make field static final java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.IMPL_LOOKUP accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.lang.invoke" to unnamed module @7d4793a8
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:354)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkCanSetAccessible(AccessibleObject.java:297)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Field.checkCanSetAccessible(Field.java:178)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Field.setAccessible(Field.java:172)
	at cpw.mods.niofs.union.UnionFileSystem.<clinit>(UnionFileSystem.java:52)
	... 8 more

I can execute runClient in command prompt without any issues, but not through Eclipse. I have tried this with both Java16 and Java17 and both give this same error. Does anyone have any suggestions to get this working correctly?

I managed to get this fixed. I remembered reading someone saying that the command order matters when setting up. Previously I had set up by running gradlew eclipse then gradlew genEclipseRuns I swapped the order and that seems to have fixed my issue.

Edited September 15, 20232 yr by saxon564
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