Android and Log4j

[Uwe Schindler]

Hi,

I'd also suggest to place the module-info.class inside the versions folder. So it should be ignored once the meta-inf bug is fixed.

Java 9 should also read the module info from the versioned folder.

Uwe


Am 3. Dezember 2017 20:19:34 MEZ schrieb Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>:
>On 03/12/2017 18:25, Ralph Goers wrote:
>> Log4j added support for Java 9 by:
>> Converting the Log4j-API jar to a multi-release jar that includes
>support for StackWalker and the new Process Id support.
>> Adding a module-info.jar to the Log4j API jar.
>>
>> We are now getting complaints from Android users (as well as a few
>others) that their tools no longer work with log4j. During development
>I ran into problems with OSGi. The problems seem to mostly revolve
>around the fact that they can’t deal with the classes for Java 9. I was
>surprised that Android is failing on the classes in META-INF/versions/9
>as I had assumed that would be an invalid location for a class file
>prior to Java 9, but that seems not to be the case. The fact that
>module-info.java turns into a class file also seems to be a problem
>since the various tools are seeing it and having problems with it.
>>
>> :
>>
>> Do you have any recommendations on how we can resolve this impasse?
>>
>The Android tools should ignore class files in META/**, at least until 
>they are updated to work with multi-release JARs. Have you created a
>bug 
>for them to look at this issue?
>
>-Alan

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