Further to this, I built batik-1.9 from source using JDK9 and got the same issue.
Investigating, this is due to: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/Window Class org.w3c.dom.Window is defined in batik-ext.jar. Other classes in the org.w3c.dom package (e.g. Node) are provided by the runtime (running with -verbose says it's from jrt:/java.xml) but Window isn't. My conjecture is that this prevents the classloader from looking any further into jars specified by the application, and maybe this has changed between JDK8 and 9. I then renamed the package in the source for batik-ext.jar and fixed up all the references in the rest of batik. Obviously this is only a hack. Then I found that I could start squiggle and open an SVG file. I don't know if this caused any other issues elsewhere. Hope this helps, Peter On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 at 11:08 Peter Hull <peterhul...@gmail.com> wrote: > The binary download of Batik Squiggle 1.9 is not working for me under Java > 9 (Windows 10); it hangs whilst displaying the splash screen. I believe > this has already been reported in December 2016[1]. > I can investigate further but I wanted to check first in case it was > already known about and fixed. > Thanks, > Peter > [1]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-batik-users/201612.mbox/raw/%3C006f01d252da%24286b8950%2479429bf0%24%40tosovsky%40tiscali.cz%3E >
