RFR/RFA (8u-dev) 8080524: [TESTBUG] java/lang/Class/getDeclaredField/FieldSetAccessibleTest.java fails on compact profiles

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/06/2015 11:29, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
> Hi David!
>
> The test fails when reading content of existing jsse.jar, which 
> belongs to compact3 profile.
> When the test loads classes from this jar and tries to access their 
> fields, it hits the types that are not included in compact[12], thus 
> NoClassDefFoundError.
>
> I'm not certain, if it is a bug that jsse.jar is referenced from 
> "sun.boot.class.path" when the application is run in compact[12] 
> profiles.
Are these the same dangling references that are listed in 8u's 
make/data/checkdeps/refs.allowed? It wasn't possible to get these issues 
fixed in 8u but they have been addressed in 9.

Separately, I hope that this section from TEST.groups will eventually go 
away in 9.

-Alan