Feedback from Hacking Java 9 at the Chicago Java Users Group

[Freddy Guime]

not yet, we'd like some help identifying the right lists : )

Thanks!

Freddy


On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Freddy,
>
> Great work and thanks Heather for organising the session! Did all of the
> issues get reported to the appropriate mailing lists?
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
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> On 27 June 2016 at 14:31, Freddy Guime <freddy.guime at cjug.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone! We had a Hacking JDK 9 session a little while ago, but
>> finally collected and put all the comments from our members on feedback. It
>> was great having Heather and Charlie move things along and work with the
>> Chicago Java Community to try and play with JDK9.
>>
>> Let me know if you want me to go back and get more details on any of
>> these.
>>
>> Thanks!
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>> Jan Fetyko:
>> Trying out jdk9 build 9-ea+112: I can compile and run. But jvisualvm
>> crashes with exception : Exception in thread "main"
>> java.lang.SecurityException: setContextClassLoader at
>> jdk.internal.misc.InnocuousThread.setContextClassLoader(java.base at 9-ea
>> /InnocuousThread.java:104)
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>> Mirko:
>> Charlie and Heather both did a fantastic presentation followed by a hands
>> on session with Java 9 and the people there. We had some issues with having
>> the Spring IDE recognizing the JDK. It is built on an eclipse platform but
>> for some odd reason it would not recognize the JDK 9 software. We spoke
>> with Charlie about it and he had a few ideas and suggestions on how to fix
>> this issue.
>>
>> We tried setting up JDK 9 on Netbeans. It would see the JDK 9 but when it
>> came to switching it from Java 1.8 it locked up the app and it req. the
>> task manager to kill the app. The good thing was Heather was able to help
>> us with this issue and show that there was another download that we should
>> use when hooking it up to Netbeans. We did get the JDK running in a command
>> line to compile some code we wrote up and run it
>>
>> Thank you to Heather, Charlie & everyone at the CJUG and IMC Financial
>> Markets
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>> Jonathan Ross:
>> Ran into a couple of issues with playing with Java 9 on one of my
>> projects today:
>> * A regression in type inference (easily fixed by simplifying the
>> expressions/spelling out the type parameters)
>> * A peculiar change involving @Nullable @Assisted injects in guava (fixed
>> by using Optional<...> instead)
>> * Using IntelliJ 2016.1, I could compile and run everything (to 1.8
>> target) fine using the 111 build, but when I switched to 112 things broke:
>> Error:IntelliLang Pattern Validator: sun/misc/Resource
>> * When playing with jshell, I found that java.util.ServiceLoader was not
>> working as expected.
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>> Mary G:
>> Question about the Build 112 for MacOS/X, there's no zip or tar.gz
>> distribution, and as a result, when i install the dmg, the java9-ea version
>> has overwritten my previous java8 installation. Would it be possible to
>> have the zip'ped distribution for Mac? Thanks!
>>
>> John Krupka:
>> Tried to start groovyConsole and it crashed. We also tried installing
>> Leiningen for Clojure and that also exploded with missing sun.misc.Launcher.
>>
>> Matt Sicker:
>> Got a weird issue with locales
>> assertEquals("12,00 €", new MessageFormat("{0,number,currency}",
>> Locale.FRANCE).format(new Object[] {12}));
>> Same problem with Locale.GERMANY, Locale.ITALY, etc.
>>
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>> Freddy Guime
>> Community Leader
>> Chicago Java Users Group
>> freddy.guime at cjug.org
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