Incompatible change to java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/06/2017 10:08, Sven Reimers wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> nice idea. The only drawback is this requires JDK 9 for a build. What I
> wanted to check is if I can compile the same unchanged source tree with JDK
> 8 and 9...
>
> Since there is not yet a hard requirement for JDK 9 compilation, i.e. this
> is just an experiment to figure out things that may be broken and need
> work, I would not see any actions on NetBeans side at the moment. I was
> just astonished about the breaking change naively assuming that default
> methods should be an easy fix.
>
> Thanks for the hint, waiting what Alan comes up with in the meantime
> (probably more projects could be hit by the problem)
Hard to say. We've had new abstract methods on Instrumentation in the EA 
builds for a  long time (and in main line JDK 9 EA builds since 3/2016) 
and it hasn't come up before now (at least not to my knowledge).
>
> @Alan: Shall I file a bug?
>
Okay.