On 03/12/2017 18:25, Ralph Goers wrote:
Log4j added support for Java 9 by:
Converting the Log4j-API jar to a multi-release jar that includes support for
StackWalker and the new Process Id support.
Adding a module-info.jar to the Log4j API jar.
We are now getting complaints from Android users (as well as a few others) that
their tools no longer work with log4j. During development I ran into problems
with OSGi. The problems seem to mostly revolve around the fact that they can’t
deal with the classes for Java 9. I was surprised that Android is failing on
the classes in META-INF/versions/9 as I had assumed that would be an invalid
location for a class file prior to Java 9, but that seems not to be the case.
The fact that module-info.java turns into a class file also seems to be a
problem since the various tools are seeing it and having problems with it.
:
Do you have any recommendations on how we can resolve this impasse?
The Android tools should ignore class files in META/**, at least until
they are updated to work with multi-release JARs. Have you created a bug
for them to look at this issue?
-Alan
