Web Start + jigsaw, org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity ClassNotFoundExceptionwe

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/10/2016 21:21, Frank Meilinger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we try to bring our Web Start application to work with JDK 9-ea+135 
> and found an issue with CORBA.
>
> Our existing application (compiled with javac 8) has some classes 
> which implements "org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity". javaws 9 launched 
> the jnlp file without problems and load the application. After 
> starting, the following Exception occur in the Java Web Start Java 
> Console.
>
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
> org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity
>     at 
> com.sun.deploy.security.DeployURLClassLoader.findClass(jdk.deploy at 9-ea/DeployURLClassLoader.java:301)
>     at 
> com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(jdk.javaws at 9-ea/JNLPClassLoader.java:382)
>     at 
> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base at 9-ea/ClassLoader.java:486)
>     at 
> com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader.loadClass(jdk.javaws at 9-ea/JNLPClassLoader.java:136)
>     at 
> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base at 9-ea/ClassLoader.java:419)
>     ... 85 more
>
> Is the java.corba module available by default? If not, is there a way 
> to include this module in the Web Start launching process while 
> starting the application (maybe by adding something to the jnlp)? Or 
> is this maybe an open issue with Web Start, jigsaw and org.omg.corba 
> packages?
The java.corba module is not resolved by default. WebStart has been 
updated to white-list --add-modules so you should be able to include 
`--add-modules=java.corba` in the value of the java-vm-args attribute.

-Alan.