RFR : 8039131: CORBA build issue : sun.misc.JavaAWTAccess

[Chris Hegarty]

The change looks ok to me.

We really need to get of 7u7 as the bootstrap.

You could simply catch ReflectiveOpertionException, but what you have is more specific.

-Chris.

On 3 Apr 2014, at 10:43, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:

> The CORBA build issue continues. I was incorrectly using 7u40 as the bootstrap JDK. 7u7 is still the version that RE uses and that causes an issue since sun.misc.JavaAWTAccess wasn't introduced until 7u9.
> 
> The fix proposed is short term. There's a discussion underway on build-dev to bump the JDK bootstrap version to JDK 8 for JDK 9 builds.
> 
> Build and tests are good. I've used 7u7 this time for bootstrap!
> 
> bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039131
> webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.8039131/webrev/
> 
> regards,
> Sean.