[hibernate-dev] ORM & Java 9 - strange javadoc failure

[Steve Ebersole]

Sanne, have you had a chance to look at this?  If not, I may have to just
disable Java 9 from Travis

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 8:37 PM Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> I worked on getting Travis CI set up on ORM for reasons discussed here
> previously.  But I am running into a really strange error when I enabled
> Java 9:
>
> javadoc: error - An exception occurred while building a component:
> ClassSerializedForm
> (com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for
> org.hibernate.engine.Mapping not found)
> Please file a bug against the javadoc tool via the Java bug reporting page
> (http://bugreport.java.com) after checking the Bug Database (
> http://bugs.java.com)
> for duplicates. Include error messages and the following diagnostic in
> your report. Thank you.
> com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for
> org.hibernate.engine.Mapping not found
>
> It seems like javadoc is complaining because it sees a reference to a
> class (org.hibernate.engine.Mapping) that it cannot find.  It is true that
> there is no class named org.hibernate.engine.Mapping, the real name is
> org.hibernate.engine.spi.Mapping - but what is strange is that I search the
> entire ORM project and found zero references to the String
> org.hibernate.engine.Mapping.
>
> I just kicked off a run of the ORM / Java 9 Jenkins job to see if it has
> the same failure.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>