Just a heads up for anybody venturing to try running Tapestry 5 webapp on JRE8. Looks like the latest Javassist is incompatible, I'm getting a stack trace copied below on advised classes. Looks like a straight-up issue with Javassist. I didn't find any relevant bug open but I'll follow up with them. Let me know if anybody has more info.
Kalle Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: invalid constant type: 15 at javassist.CtClassType.getClassFile2(CtClassType.java:203) at javassist.CtClassType.subtypeOf(CtClassType.java:303) at javassist.CtClassType.subtypeOf(CtClassType.java:318) at javassist.compiler.MemberResolver.compareSignature(MemberResolver.java:247) at javassist.compiler.MemberResolver.lookupMethod(MemberResolver.java:119) at javassist.compiler.MemberResolver.lookupMethod(MemberResolver.java:96) at javassist.compiler.TypeChecker.atMethodCallCore(TypeChecker.java:704) at javassist.compiler.TypeChecker.atCallExpr(TypeChecker.java:681) at javassist.compiler.JvstTypeChecker.atCallExpr(JvstTypeChecker.java:156) at javassist.compiler.ast.CallExpr.accept(CallExpr.java:45) at javassist.compiler.JvstTypeChecker.atCastToRtype(JvstTypeChecker.java:112) at javassist.compiler.JvstTypeChecker.atCastExpr(JvstTypeChecker.java:93) at javassist.compiler.ast.CastExpr.accept(CastExpr.java:54) at javassist.compiler.CodeGen.doTypeCheck(CodeGen.java:241) at javassist.compiler.CodeGen.compileExpr(CodeGen.java:228) at javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atReturnStmnt2(CodeGen.java:597) at javassist.compiler.JvstCodeGen.atReturnStmnt(JvstCodeGen.java:424) at javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atStmnt(CodeGen.java:362) at javassist.compiler.ast.Stmnt.accept(Stmnt.java:49) at javassist.compiler.CodeGen.atMethodBody(CodeGen.java:291) at javassist.compiler.Javac.compileBody(Javac.java:222) at javassist.CtBehavior.setBody(CtBehavior.java:401) at javassist.CtBehavior.setBody(CtBehavior.java:375) at org.apache.tapestry5.ioc.internal.services.ClassFabImpl.addMethod(ClassFabImpl.java:226) ... 176 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: invalid constant type: 15 at javassist.bytecode.ConstPool.readOne(ConstPool.java:1090) at javassist.bytecode.ConstPool.read(ConstPool.java:1033) at javassist.bytecode.ConstPool.<init>(ConstPool.java:149) at javassist.bytecode.ClassFile.read(ClassFile.java:737) at javassist.bytecode.ClassFile.<init>(ClassFile.java:108) at javassist.CtClassType.getClassFile2(CtClassType.java:190) ... 199 more