I was having some problems with this as well. First initially setting up
my new machine, I had problems running this using 1.7.0_55 even though I
never previously had problems running previous JDKs. I also saw problems
with this running the build using Java 8 JDK.
All in all I spent some time re
Here's the thing about "backwards compatibility"... That's only true if
the behavior is documented and/or tested as such or if the behavior is just
"inherently reasonable".
As you even seem agree, the previous behavior is not inherently reasonable;
its at best questionable. So then can you point
