Support for jrt-fs.jar in JDK 7 would be very helpful in allowing FindBugs to run under Java 9

[Remi Forax]

On 11/23/2014 05:42 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 22/11/2014 20:38, Remi Forax wrote:
>> :
>>
>> This seems to work at least on my laptop :)
>>   https://github.com/forax/jigsaw-jrtfs
>>
>> I end up writing a small tool that backport the source of JDK9 with 
>> no modification
>> and re-implementing the necessary API pieces of the Java 8 used by 
>> jrt-fs.
> So did you get FindBugs working with it too? If so then I'm interested 
> to hear if it is was much effort.

No, I haven't tried to modify findbugs.
I have never take a look to the source code and this is not a small project.
As you I'm interested to hear the story when someone will do that.

>
> -Alan

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