Caciocavallo bug on JDK > 8u40b06

[Roman Kennke]

Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2015 um 12:39 +0100 schrieb Severin Gehwolf:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a caciocavallo bug due to X11FontManager made final[1]. We hit
> this problem in Thermostat with cacio-tta version 1.3 on JDK 9 (or a
> more recent OpenJDK 8 build). Reproducer is attached.
> 
> Is there any chance for you to do a cacio release ([3] depends on the
> change in [2]) and get patch in [2] pushed to JDK 9. Then backport [2]
> to JDK 8.

I am working on getting the fix into JDK9. If it also affects JDK8, we
should probably backport it.

> Perhaps cacio could be made compatible with more JDKs by checking the
> version? I do see this problem surface soon for more people since JDK
> 8u40 will be GA soon.

Yeah, this is a problem. However, there's a much more serious problem
coming up, which is the module system:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2015-February/008924.html

I'd love your comments on it. I hope it doesn't kill Cacio...

Cheers,
Roman