Regression after jpackage+1-49 update

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/10/2019 08:00, David Holmes wrote:
> On 7/10/2019 4:43 pm, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 07/10/2019 04:35, David Holmes wrote:
>>>
>>> Nothing to do with jpackage but a fix to Class.forName to ensure 
>>> classes are linked as per the specification of forName. You can 
>>> temporarily workaround with -XX:+ClassForNameDeferLinking, but your 
>>> code needs to be updated to deal with LinkageErrors from Class.forName.
>> In this case, it is core reflection code that it looking at the type 
>> parameters in the type of a field. I suspect this code needs to 
>> translate NCDEF to TypeNotPresentException, other linkage errors 
>> maybe need to be handled here too.
>
> Oops! Yes indeed.
I've created JDK-8231924 [1] to track this. We will need to a wider 
audit of Class.forName usages in the JDK in case there are other issues 
like this.

-Alan

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231924