Mark, On 4/9/18 11:11 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 09/04/18 14:20, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Mark, >> >> On 4/8/18 6:39 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 08/04/2018 21:29, Christopher Schultz wrote: >>> >>> <snip/> >>> >>>> Does Tomcat do its own UTF-8 decoding because the JVM doesn't have a >>>> facility to convert from ByteBuffer to CharBuffer? That seems like >>>> something the JVM really should be providing... >>> >>> No. It does it because the JRE UTF-8 decoder is buggy. Some bugs were >>> fixed in Java 8 and the rest in Java 9 so we need this decoder until >>> Java 9 is the minimum. >> >> Gotcha. Are there any known remaining bugs in the Java 9 implementation? > > Not that I am aware of. > >> If not, should we go ahead and use the JVM-provided UTF-8 decoder when >> we detect a suitable version of Java? Or is it simply not worth it? > > We could. From memory there were some performance issues as well but > that would need to be retested to see if they still apply. > >> Sadly, the OpenJDK license is GPL, so we can't simply use their code in >> Tomcat. :( > > But the Harmony implementation is ALv2 so we just used that (and fixed > the additional bugs). :)
Right, but Harmony is dead, Jim. Er, Mark. -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
