It turns out that the trick of using 3.21 doesn't work for Jake any more. So I guess there is no work-around for me on that platform and I won't be working on it.
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Bateman Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 9:17 AM To: Stephen Felts; jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: javassist broken on Jake On 12/11/2016 13:42, Stephen Felts wrote: > I've been trying to get a javassist that works in all environments. > > For a while, I created a multi release jar file that used Javassist 3.20 for > pre-jdk9 and Javassist 3.21 for JDK9/Jake. The JDK team wasn't happy about > this use of multi release jar files but it worked great. > Then 3.22.0-CR1 was released and I thought the problem was solved. This is > working for pre-JDK9 and JDK-9 but it's now failing on Jake (build 143). > As Claes noted, this is a new API in JDK 9 that is not final yet so some churn is expected. It will be easier for Javassist once the API changes in jake get to JDK 9. In the mean-time, here is the issue in Javassist JIRA tracking this Mandy created it a few days ago): https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JASSIST-264 -Alan.