[forge-dev] Building Forge with Java 8

[Vineet Reynolds Pereira]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ivan St. Ivanov" <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com>
> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Cc: "Mani Sarkar" <sadhak001 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 2:38:45 PM
> Subject: [forge-dev] Building Forge with Java 8
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> As some of you noticed, last night I was able to build and run Forge with the
> latest early access build of Open JDK 9 (from the Jigsaw forest!). I had to
> do just one manual workaround. I had to manually add the following
> dependency to the javaee/impl/pom.xml and shell/impl/pom.xml:
> 
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.jboss.forge.furnace.container</groupId>
> <artifactId>simple-api</artifactId>
> <scope>provided</scope>
> </dependency>
> 
> It was a problem that was already found and documented in this JIRA:
> 
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-2019
> 
> The JIRA says that this problem occurs with Java 8, build 20. So my question
> is whether this is fixed in later builds of Java 8. If yes, I will report
> this to the Open JDK folks to up-port the fix to Java 9 as well. If not, I
> guess we should fix the poms of the respective projects?

I believe this is a known bug in OpenJDK (link anyone?) and it has broken other project builds as well.
It is unfixed as of 8u25 (tested it yesterday), so we're using older versions of JDK to build Forge.

And the POMs should not be fixed; that would be the wrong way to go about it (see George's comment in the JIRA).

> 
> Thanks,
> Ivan
> 
> P.S. Sorry for the 'lazy web' style of message. I know I could have run the
> build with newer Java 8 by myself :)
> P.P.S. Thanks to Mani Sarkar from LJC that went the hard way last week and
> found this workaround for me
> 
> 
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