I have installed OBIEE (v. 11.1.1.9.0) on Weblogic 10.3.6., extending an existing domain. My requirement is to use JDK 8. When I start up the servers, the following error is encountered and BI fails to start. The error is while loading wsclient-rt.jar java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/io/CharacterEncoding at oracle.j2ee.ws.common.util.TestPageUtils.encode(TestPageUtils.java:216)
After a research figured out that sun.io,CharacterEncoding is removed from JDK 8. I am aware that JDK 8 is not supported on Weblogic 10.3.6. But, is there any way I could get the BI publisher running on Weblogic 10.3.6 using JDK 8 or is there any patch available for weblogic 10.3.6. supporting JDK 8?