Icedtea-web and Java 9 again

[Jiri Vanek]

On 11/03/2015 11:27 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 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.
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>>
>> 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.
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> In this way are handeld eg. url permissions in ITW.
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> I will try t reply with patch soon.

Attached is my "safer" patch. Thoughts? Will be valid for head and 1.6
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> Thank you very much!
>    J.
>
>> Cheeers
>>
>> Fridrich
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