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Ismael Juma commented on KAFKA-4501: ------------------------------------ I had a quick look at making the build work with Java 9 by using the various escape hatches available. We get a NPE from Zinc (Scala incremental compiler used by Gradle): {code} 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at sbt.IO$.pathSplit(IO.scala:744) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at sbt.IO$.parseClasspath(IO.scala:859) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at sbt.compiler.CompilerArguments.extClasspath(CompilerArguments.scala:62) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at sbt.compiler.AggressiveCompile.withBootclasspath(AggressiveCompile.scala:50) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at sbt.compiler.AggressiveCompile.compile2(AggressiveCompile.scala:83) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at sbt.compiler.AggressiveCompile.compile1(AggressiveCompile.scala:70) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at com.typesafe.zinc.Compiler.compile(Compiler.scala:201) 10:11:11.328 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at com.typesafe.zinc.Compiler.compile(Compiler.scala:183) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at com.typesafe.zinc.Compiler.compile(Compiler.scala:174) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at com.typesafe.zinc.Compiler.compile(Compiler.scala:165) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.scala.ZincScalaCompiler$Compiler.execute(ZincScalaCompiler.java:81) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.scala.ZincScalaCompiler.execute(ZincScalaCompiler.java:52) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.scala.ZincScalaCompiler.execute(ZincScalaCompiler.java:38) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.daemon.AbstractDaemonCompiler$CompilerWorkerAdapter.execute(AbstractDaemonCompiler.java:73) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.daemon.AbstractDaemonCompiler$CompilerWorkerAdapter.execute(AbstractDaemonCompiler.java:64) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.workers.internal.WorkerDaemonServer.execute(WorkerDaemonServer.java:29) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.daemon.AbstractDaemonCompiler$CompilerDaemonServer.execute(AbstractDaemonCompiler.java:91) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) 10:11:11.329 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.process.internal.worker.request.WorkerAction.run(WorkerAction.java:88) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHubBackedObjectConnection$DispatchWrapper.dispatch(MessageHubBackedObjectConnection.java:147) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHubBackedObjectConnection$DispatchWrapper.dispatch(MessageHubBackedObjectConnection.java:129) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHub$Handler.run(MessageHub.java:404) 10:11:11.330 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] ... 2 more {code} Relevant issues: https://github.com/sbt/zinc/pull/279 https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/2951 > Support Java 9 > -------------- > > Key: KAFKA-4501 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4501 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Ismael Juma > Fix For: 0.11.1.0 > > > Java 9 is scheduled to be released in July 2017. We should support it. > The new module system enforces access control and things like `setAccessible` > cannot, by default, be used to circumvent access control in other modules. > There are command-line flags available to disable the behaviour on a module > by module basis. > Right now, Gradle fails with the latest Java 9 snapshot and Scala 2.12.1 is > required if building with Java 9. So we are blocked until the Gradle issues > are fixed. > I set the "Fix version" to 0.10.2.0, but it's likely to happen for the > release after that. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)