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Subject: Re: Early Access builds of JDK 8u112 b03, JDK 9 b128 are available on
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To: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>, dev@ant.apache.org
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Cc: rory.odonnell@oracle.com, Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic@oracle.com>,
        Balchandra Vaidya <balchandra.vaidya@oracle.com>,
        Muneer Kolarkunnu <abdul.kolarkunnu@oracle.com>, felix.yang@oracle.com
From: "Rory O'Donnell" <rory.odonnell@oracle.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:11:40 +0100
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Hi Stefan,

On 25/07/2016 16:08, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Hi all
>
> some feedback from working on Apache Ant.
>
> On 2016-07-22, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
>
>> Early Access b127 <https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/> (#5304) for JDK 9
>> with Project Jigsaw is available on java.net, summary of changes are
>> listed here
>> <http://download.java.net/java/jigsaw/archive/127/binaries/jdk-9+127.html>
> thanks to Felix Yang's bug reports I've already fixed problems with
> Ant's native2ascii and rmic tasks.
>
> For <rmic> Ant was invoking sun.rmi.rmic.Main internally and this class
> is no longer exported (and inside a module Ant wouldn't import
> anyway). I'm a little bit worried that com.sun.tools.javac.Main used in
> <javac> and com.sun.tools.javah.oldjavah.Main used in <javah> may
> "disappear" in similar ways (or already have).
>
> [aside: removing native2ascii from the JDK as people could use ther
> build tools which in turn use the JDK tool still strikes me as a curious
> move]
>
> I can successfully bootstrap Ant's master branch with the latest jigsaw
> build and am down to three families of errors:
>
> * rmic -Xnew doesn't work and fails with a strange error message. I know
>    I've reported this before:
>
>    rmic -vcompat -Xnew SomeClass
>
>    results in
>
>    ,----
>    | rmic: error - In doclet class sun.rmi.rmic.newrmic.Main,  method
>    | optionLength not accessible
>    | 1 error
>    `----
>
>    I think I've been told -Xnew had been removed before (and if so we
>    need to adapt Ant), but there should be a better error message.
>
> * some of the JAI tests fail, but I haven't had the time to really look
>    into them, yet. JAI is not an area I felt confident in jumping in.
>
> * Something has changed WRT date time parsing. Many of the <touch>
>    invocations we use inside our tests fail (on my German locale system,
>    in case this matters).
>
>    We use
>
>    DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.SHORT, Locale.US)
>
>    and receive
>
>    ,----
>    | java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "06/24/2003 2:20 pm"
>    | at java.text.DateFormat.parse(java.base@9-ea/DateFormat.java:366)
>    `----
>
>    The same string is parsed without any problems on Java8 and earlier.
Can you log bugs for the above items and let us have the Incident IDs, 
we will follow up  ?

Rgds,Rory
>
> Cheers
>
>          Stefan

-- 
Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland


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