Hi all some feedback from working on Apache Ant.
On 2016-07-22, Rory O'Donnell wrote: > Early Access b127 <https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/> (#5304) for JDK 9 > with Project Jigsaw is available on java.net, summary of changes are > listed here > <http://download.java.net/java/jigsaw/archive/127/binaries/jdk-9+127.html> thanks to Felix Yang's bug reports I've already fixed problems with Ant's native2ascii and rmic tasks. For <rmic> Ant was invoking sun.rmi.rmic.Main internally and this class is no longer exported (and inside a module Ant wouldn't import anyway). I'm a little bit worried that com.sun.tools.javac.Main used in <javac> and com.sun.tools.javah.oldjavah.Main used in <javah> may "disappear" in similar ways (or already have). [aside: removing native2ascii from the JDK as people could use ther build tools which in turn use the JDK tool still strikes me as a curious move] I can successfully bootstrap Ant's master branch with the latest jigsaw build and am down to three families of errors: * rmic -Xnew doesn't work and fails with a strange error message. I know I've reported this before: rmic -vcompat -Xnew SomeClass results in ,---- | rmic: error - In doclet class sun.rmi.rmic.newrmic.Main, method | optionLength not accessible | 1 error `---- I think I've been told -Xnew had been removed before (and if so we need to adapt Ant), but there should be a better error message. * some of the JAI tests fail, but I haven't had the time to really look into them, yet. JAI is not an area I felt confident in jumping in. * Something has changed WRT date time parsing. Many of the <touch> invocations we use inside our tests fail (on my German locale system, in case this matters). We use DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.SHORT, Locale.US) and receive ,---- | java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "06/24/2003 2:20 pm" | at java.text.DateFormat.parse(java.base@9-ea/DateFormat.java:366) `---- The same string is parsed without any problems on Java8 and earlier. Cheers Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
