JDK-8060068/JDK-8067904 DriverManager clean-up introduces bootstrap problem that breaks production drivers
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Apr 3 11:04:05 UTC 2015
On 03/04/2015 10:33, Robert Gibson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We are doing some early testing with JDK 9 and have discovered that the changes made to java.sql.DriverManager back in November/December have introduced an incompatibility with our JDBC driver (that we have used unchanged since Java 6) when it is pre-loaded with Class.forName (as recommended by Tomcat and specified as being harmless in the JavaDoc). We filed a bug report but it got an incident ID JI-9019539 and then disappeared into a black hole.
>
There does appear to be an issue with those changes. I've located the
incident and moved it to the JDK project as JDK-8076639 [1].
-Alan
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8076639
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