running Groovy on JDK9

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/04/2016 16:57, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> :
>
> And then of course there is the problem of XML parser being loaded 
> dynamically. You get effects like this: 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8015099, and we too had 
> already a load of fun with xerces being part of the distribution and 
> the violation of classloading constraints. All that gets worse, if you 
> want to "download" something like xpp3 from the web in your 
> application and then use it directly.
I had a brief discussion with Joe Wang about this as it seems to be a 
caching bug in the legacy SAX code. So we think it would be better to 
just get this bug fixed rather than trying to workaround it by extending 
the class path at runtime.

-Alan