breandan
commented
6 years ago I think you're getting this error because you're not using JDK 8, or are on an older version of the IntelliJ Platform. Is this true? Idear inherits initComponent() from BaseComponent, which uses a default method on the interface, a more recent addition to Java. IntelliJ IDEA bundles JDK 8 since version 144. Can you try updating your JDK, or IDE to 144+ and report if this problem still occurs? I'm thinking of bumping the minimum required platform version to 144 anyway.
scottlahay
Getting this when attempting to load the latest release
java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.openasr.idear.Idear.initComponent()V at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl$ComponentConfigComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ComponentManagerImpl.java:491) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.createComponents(ComponentManagerImpl.java:120) at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.lambda$createComponents$8(ApplicationImpl.java:466) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.lambda$runProcess$1(CoreProgressManager.java:176) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.registerIndicatorAndRun(CoreProgressManager.java:556) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.executeProcessUnderProgress(CoreProgressManager.java:501) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.ProgressManagerImpl.executeProcessUnderProgress(ProgressManagerImpl.java:66) at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.runProcess(CoreProgressManager.java:163) at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.createComponents(ApplicationImpl.java:473) at com.intellij.openapi.components.impl.ComponentManagerImpl.init(ComponentManagerImpl.java:104) at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.load(ApplicationImpl.java:425) at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.load(ApplicationImpl.java:411) at com.intellij.idea.IdeaApplication.run(IdeaApplication.java:206) at com.intellij.idea.MainImpl$1.lambda$null$0(MainImpl.java:49) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:762) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:98) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:715) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:732) at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:343) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)