2018-04-08 13:57:13 UTC - Venkat: Hi @Matteo Merli , I was trying this issue <https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/issues/1419> ( Pulsar standalone fails to start with java 9 ) . Looks like the EA AgentLoader which is being used is not supported in jdk 9 .. If i'm not wrong we are using the AgentLoader mainly to load the aspectj-weaver agent . Do you know any alternatives which could be used for loading aspectj agent? ----