JDK 9 build 109 -> Lucene's Ant build works again; still missing Hotspot patches

[Alan Bateman]

On 17/03/2016 18:39, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> JDK-9 build 109 works, build 110 does not work. This is *not* about Jigsaw, just the standard JDK build.
> I have the feeling this is just a packaging bug. The META-INF/services file in question contains a class that is missing in the jimage.
>
Just catching up on this thread.

The EA builds on java.net don't include a number of Oracle "specials". 
These specials integrate as service providers and until now, have 
required a sprinkle of fairy dust in the build to create the service 
configuration file with the complete list of PlatformMBeanProvider 
implementations. The issue is that the build is incorrectly appending a 
class name of an implementation that is not in the build. A non-issue 
for OpenJDK builds, a non-issue for the builds in Oracle as these 
service providers are present. Just an issue for the EA builds, sorry 
about that.

If the module system goes into JDK 9 next week for jdk-9+111 then it 
should address this issue. The reason is that the service configuration 
files go away, as has the make file recipes to combine things at build 
time. If something bad happens and we can't integrate next week then we 
can trivially fix the build that is causing the problem.

Just to add Mandy's comment about com.sun.management being a supported 
API. Yes, it is JDK-specific supported (and documented [1]) API. It is 
exported by the jdk.management module when we move to modules (next week 
I hope).

-Alan

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/jre/api/management/extension/