Error starting Protege on Mac with Java 9

[william-vw]

When attempting to manually start the platform-independent version on Mac (the OS-specific version simply shows a terminal window for half a second before quitting) I got the error shown in log1.txt. Running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 and with Java SDK 9 installed.

When searching for a solution I came across an issue from a few years back. I copied felix.jar (and renamed it properly) to the bin/ folder. Although it seems to get a bit further now, I still get an error as shown in
log2.txt.

Any help would be appreciated. A student (in a tutorial on ontology engineering) first encountered the issue and I was able to replicate it on my Mac.

[william-vw]

Update: I removed JDK 9 from the system and installed JDK 8u162. Now Protege works just fine.

[csnyulas]

Thanks for the detailed report. This is very useful.
We don't have a setup to test this out at the moment, but we will try to reproduce it ourselves, when we get a chance.

[ykazakov]

Duplicate of #732

[matthewhorridge]

Superseded by #822