Icedtea-web and Java 9 again

[Jiri Vanek]

On 11/03/2015 10:17 AM, Fridrich Strba wrote:
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> Hello, good people,
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> This change http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/2b680924a73f
> broke again icedtea-web build with java 9. Since there is no support
> of serialized applets anymore, the fix for Java 9 seems a straight
> forward removal of the doInit = true assignment. See attached patch.
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> Now there is a question, since the true is a default for doInit in the
> base class, whether removing this doInit for java 7 and 8 is not a
> plausible solution. If not, we will lose the possibility to use the
> same build of icedtea-web for java 9 and the lower versions.
I would like to keep this feature - build itw on one jdk, and run on another as  much as possible.

>
> Please, advise
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Hello!

Thanx for this! Really a lot. You are always kick to update jdk 9:)  I was playing with this issue, 
and I was not able to proof removal of the field is causing any harm. But eg I was not testing 
serialized appelts:-/
And I assume, they will be the ones which break.

Safest approach will be to handle this field doInit via  reflection.
If it exists, set ti to true, otherwise ignore it.

In this way are handeld eg. url permissions in ITW.

I will try t reply with patch soon.

Thank you very much!
   J.

> Cheeers
>
> Fridrich
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