Thanks Alan,Note that the repro given in my mail is a bit simpler than the current defect description, especially if you don't have access to the "MyFace" JDBC driver.Regards,Robert
On Friday, 3 April 2015, 13:04, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: On 03/04/2015 10:33, Robert Gibson wrote: > Hi there, > > We are doing some early testing with JDK 9 and have discovered that the > changes made to java.sql.DriverManager back in November/December have > introduced an incompatibility with our JDBC driver (that we have used > unchanged since Java 6) when it is pre-loaded with Class.forName (as > recommended by Tomcat and specified as being harmless in the JavaDoc). We > filed a bug report but it got an incident ID JI-9019539 and then disappeared > into a black hole. > There does appear to be an issue with those changes. I've located the incident and moved it to the JDK project as JDK-8076639 [1]. -Alan [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8076639