TestNG build failing with JDK9 Jigsaw due to Gradle

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 02.11.2015 11:24, Alan Bateman wrote:
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> Uwe Schindler has created a bug on this topic here:
>
>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7587
>
> It makes me wonder if Groovy has ever been used with a security manager
> as it seems to wrap or need access to all JDK-internal types.

This impression is wrong, Groovy does not need access to all 
JDK-internal types. But this is a dynamic language at heart. If you do 
not have a static type, then the runtime type is what counts, and that 
is the exact type, which is sometime an internal JDK type. It means 
Groovy has to do the same thing it has to do when a security manager 
doesn't like access to this class, which is to not use the specific 
class/method, but the super class information... or the information of 
that super class.. in worst case this will be Object, which means only 
method from Object can be called using Groovy in that case.

The current state is, that this issue is now fixed. The example scripts 
in the issue are working. That does not mean we can now run the build on 
jigsaw of course.

bye Jochen