JOSM feedback on Java 7,8,9, including Jigsaw EA

[Jaroslav Bachorik]

On 30.10.2015 18:02, Alan Bateman wrote:
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> On 30/10/2015 15:29, Vincent Privat wrote:
> > :
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> > Concerning Jigsaw:
> > - We have reported 3 bugs. All made it to the public JIRA: 8138878,
> > 8140477, 8140481. The second one is a bit problematic for our tests as
> > it basically kills our Jenkins instance. I see the two other ones are
> > understood/in progress. We will do more tests after we resolve the
> > hanging problem.
> JDK-8138878 seems to be JSOM hacking into private field in
> java.awt.Toolkit. It is possible to discuss the issue on awt-dev and
> i18n-dev to see if the changing locale scenario is meant to work?
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> We'll look into JDK-8140477. Note that there has been deadlocks
> involving instrumentation going back to JDK 5 (when java.lang.instrument
> was introduced). I don't know if this one is in that bucket but
> generally agents need to be take great care when instrumenting code
> defined to the ext and boot loader (because the agent's classes are
> defined by the app class loader).
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> JDK-8140481 seem to be the jdk.management module missing from the JDK 9
> build, it may not be specific to the Jigsaw EA builds.

No, it's not. Same problem with non-jigsaw builds.

-JB-

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> > Concerning Valhalla:
> > - I see some discussions about building the JDK with project Valhalla.
> > Are you going to provide public Early Access builds like project Jigsaw?
> >
> This is something to ask on valhalla-dev, it might be too early for that.
>
> -Alan