Need help testing the EA builds

[Russell Gold]

Simplestub, at least, should no longer be a problem. The issue there was Javassist, but the ASM implementation works on Jigsaw. 

> On Mar 2, 2016, at 11:29 AM, Stephen Felts <stephen.felts at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, you are correct.  The rt.jar change and the classloading changes have caused many of these tools problems.  I should have tried to separate the Jake from non-Jake problems.
> I've also been entering bugs where possible.  I entered them for gradle, jython, eclipselink, and findbugs for tools outside Oracle.
> 
> Using upgrade, module, and patch files is clearly Jake as are the need to use exports.
> Jmockit and Simplestub are I think partly related to Jake but it's hard to tell until we figure out the full problem.
> Passing information to the Gradle daemon is Jake related (separate from the junit problem).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Bateman 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:13 AM
> To: Stephen Felts; jigsaw-dev
> Subject: Re: Need help testing the EA builds
> 
> 
> On 02/03/2016 15:26, Stephen Felts wrote:
>> This will be a significant problem for a lot of people with respect to tools not working.
>> Gradle junit - basic problem fixed in upcoming release Jython Ant - 
>> certain cases with classloader JDT - doesn't work at all Asm - never 
>> tracked down issue Jmockit Simplestub
>> 
> For some of the tools/libraries that you list then I assume the issues aren't specific to the module system or other changes in the jigsaw/jake forest. Instead I assume that at least some of the issues are due to the restructuring of the  JDK run-time image (JEP 220). We knew this would be a disruptive change so this is one of the reasons it went into JDK 9 very early (in late 2014) and give the tools as much time as possible.
> 
> I see for Jython that you have an issue in their issue tracker for this.
> 
> Jayaprakash Arthanareeswaran has been on this list a few times and might be able to say a few words about JDT. I've read several articles about beta versions working with JDK 9 and it appears that good progress has been made.
> 
> -Alan