Early Access builds for JDK 9 b42, JDK 8 b18 & JDK 7 b03 are available on java.net

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/01/2015 11:43, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> Hi Rory,
>
> I am afraid I spoke too soon as far as building/running Byteman on JDK9
> b42 is concerned (I made an error during testing whihc meant that I did
> nto test the correct version).
>
> The Byteman agent code (that's everything in in byteman-jar) appears to
> be working ok. However, there appears to be a problem with the BMUnit
> package (that's bundled in byteman-bmunit.jar) which integrates the
> Byteman agent into JUnit and TestNG.
>
> The problem arises because BMUnit relies on class Virtual Machine and
> other related classes to autoload the Byteman agent into a test JVM.
> The relevant behaviour is defined by the following classes
>
>    com.sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachine
>    com.sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachineDescriptor
>    com.sun.tools.attach.AttachNotSupportedException
>    com.sun.tools.attach.AgentLoadException
>    com.sun.tools.attach.AgentInitializationException
>
> The code in byteman-bmunit.jar references the exception classes. There
> are also references to these classes in the utility jar
> byteman-install.jar which encapsulates the agent load routines.
>
> Both these jars build ok with JDK9 b42 -- references to the attach
> package are successfully resolved at compile time. However, I am getting
> run-time resolve failures for when the classes which reference then are
> loaded at runtime -- for example:
>
>
Are you running with a JRE download rather than a JDK download by any 
chance? The com.sun.tools.attach types should be visible when you are 
running with a JDK image.

-Alan