Hi Leo -

There was some discussion about this back in November of last year [1] - maybe the answers there will help? Apologies for not being able to say more - I am not a Mac user these days.

HTH,
Bridger
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg10162.html


On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Leo Studer <leo.studer@varioweb.ch> wrote:
Hello

I try desperately getting baseX 8.6.7 to run on MacOS X 10.13.3 where I have Java 9 installed
Here the error message:

BaseX installed with homebrew today:

MBP-2015:~ leo$ basexgui
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.basex.gui.GUIMacOSX (file:/usr/local/Cellar/basex/8.6.7/libexec/BaseX.jar) to method com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.basex.gui.GUIMacOSX
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
Failed to initialize native Mac OS X interface
MBP-2015:~ leo$ 

and the same error with the Jar file

Last login: Wed Feb 21 18:16:27 on ttys001
MBP-2015:~ leo$ java -jar ~/Downloads/BaseX867.jar
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.basex.gui.GUIMacOSX (file:/Users/leo/Downloads/BaseX867.jar) to method com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication()
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.basex.gui.GUIMacOSX
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
Failed to initialize native Mac OS X interface
MBP-2015:~ leo$ 

Any suggestions?

Thanks for caring
Always
Leo