Is there any update to a possible new BCEL release that would work with
Java8.   This is a blocker for full Java8 support for Apache CXF (due to
JIBX), Camel (again, JIBX), etc...

Dan



Emmanuel Bourg-3 wrote
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently working on the migration to Java 8 in Debian and several
> packages are broken due to the lack of invokedynamic support in BCEL 5.2
> (the dreaded ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool:
> 18). I think it's high time for a release. Even if the current code
> isn't perfect it's far better than BCEL 5.2 (there are ~60 issues fixed
> in JIRA).
> 
> The code on the trunk isn't fully compatible with the previous release
> due to the addition of methods to the Visitor interface. By Commons
> standards we would usually change the package, however I think it's safe
> to keep the org.apache.bcel package as is. The Visitor interface is
> never implemented directly, I have found that projects always extend the
> EmptyVisitor class instead. I've rebuilt several projects using BCEL
> (ant, ant-contrib, clirr, clirr-maven-plugin, ha-jdbc, jbossas, jibx,
> mx4j, xalan, maven-shared-jar, robocode) and they all worked fine with
> the current snapshot.
> 
> The code on the trunk is numbered 6.0, are we ok with that or should we
> use 5.3 for the next release?
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 
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