Replacement for JDK8 APIs

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/11/2016 10:36, Stéphane Nicoll wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Thanks a lot, that helped! [1]
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/commit/e15b3e463f312524495349673a16cb67cfaa2eae
>
The reflection has come up a number of things so great that Peter 
tracked this down.

So I'm curious why this code uses core reflection. Is it because it 
sometimes runs on the JRE that didn't have javac implementation (or 
jdk.compiler module in JDK 9).

-Alan