What does the Message "WARNING: An Illegal Reflective Access Operation Has Occurred" Indicate and can it be Fixed? (Doc ID 2850487.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 02, 2024

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Goal

 After installing or upgrading WebLogic 14.x to use JDK 11 warning messages are logged similar to this,

WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by <CLASS> (file:<PATHTOFILE>.jar) to method <METHOD>()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of <CLASS>
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

What should be done about these warnings?

Solution

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