Cause (Documented platform behavior): Native access is being restricted; each module without native access gets one warning; policy controlled by --illegal-native-access (allow/warn/deny).
Fix status: documented_behavior
Workaround (not a fix): --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED
Limitations:
- Introduced in JDK 24 per JEPs 486/498/472 (JEP pages not fetched: openjdk.org blocked); behavior verified in current jdk mainline source only.
- Manifest attribute name from general knowledge of the JEP; not present in fetched sources.
Other error fragments:
- WARNING: Use --enable-native-access=%s to avoid a warning for callers in this module
- WARNING: Restricted methods will be blocked in a future release unless native access is enabled
- WARNING: A native method in %s has been bound
- Illegal native access from
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openjdk/jdk/1587398892ce98284c9c994b14696a96cd43e1ed/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Module.java (official_docs, 2026-09, documented_behavior): ensureNativeAccess prints JNI-binding or restricted-method WARNING blocks once per module suggesting --enable-native-access=<module|ALL-UNNAMED>; throws IllegalCallerException('Illegal native access from ...') when policy is DENY.
Search phrasings: WARNING: A restricted method in java.lang.System has been called; enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED warning jdk 24; Illegal native access from an unnamed module
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Warning block on stderr naming the class/method and module (e.g. java.lang.System::loadLibrary called by org.sqlite... in an unnamed module (file:/...jar)); with --illegal-native-access=deny an IllegalCallerException is thrown.
- Context
- Product: OpenJDK Component: java.lang.Module native access checks Operation: Running code that calls System.loadLibrary/load or FFM restricted methods, or binds JNI native methods, from a module without native access enabled Affected versions: JDK 24+ for JNI warnings (FFM since 22) (see limitations) Environment: any JVM Exception: java.lang.IllegalCallerException Packages: openjdk >=24 Trigger: Loading native libraries or calling restricted methods from classpath code (unnamed module) or a named module without --enable-native-access.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- WARNING: A restricted method in %s has been called
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [JDK 24+] stderr 'WARNING: A restricted method in java.lang.System has been called ... Use --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED' (JNI/FFM libraries like sqlite-jdbc, netty-tcnative, JNA);
Recommended action: Add --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED (classpath) or --enable-native-access=<module> to the java launch command, or 'Enable-Native-Access: ALL-UNNAMED' in an executable JAR manifest; for tests add it to surefire/Gradle jvmArgs.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- e751f53b-9db6-4989-aa39-cb40ffd0964c
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Add --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED (classpath) or --enable-native-access=<module> to the java launch command, or 'Enable-Native-Access: ALL-UNNAMED' in an executable JAR manifest; for tests add it to surefire/Gradle jvmArgs.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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