Compiler options question

[manuchema]

Hello,

I am trying to run code requiring target compiler version to java 8. My jdk is version 11.

I tried the --com-opts "-target 8" during install but the kernel stops working and becomes idle. Nothing happens. If i do the install without the --com-opts kernel and code work fine.

I need to compile with target = 1.8 because i use Java/Spark in the notebook and Spark doesn't support at the moment version > 1.8.

How can achieve that ?

Thank you for the answer.

Regards

P.S.: kernel is installed in Anaconda Jupyter notebook on a windows 10 machine