How can I solve Modularity related issue ?

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/09/2018 08:28, Ichiroh Takiguchi wrote:
> Hello.
>
> One of JDBC application with JavaDB did not work on JDK12.
> Following exception happened:
>   java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:derby:xxxxxx
>
> I assume, this issue related Modularity feature...
> I could not solve this issue by myself.
I suspect this is related to the de-privileging of the java.sql.rowset 
module in JDK 9. The java.sql.rowset module is mapped to the platform 
class loader whereas historically the types in this module were defined 
by the boot class loader. This is relevant because java.sql.rowset is 
making use of the java.sql.DriverManager (in the java.sql module) and 
DriverManager is caller sensitive so it sees the caller coming from 
java.sql.rowset. This is problematic because the JDBC driver is on the 
class path and is not visible to the caller's class loader. The 
visibility check has always been in JDBC and I suspect this usage in the 
JDBC Rowset implementation only worked by accident in the past because 
DriverManager used the TCCL when called from code defined to the 
bootstrap class loader. I'm sure Lance will jump in but all previous 
investigations into changing behavior going back 20+ has come to nothing 
due to compatibility concerns.

-Alan.