On 10/29/2012 05:03 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>
> On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:32 PM, John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com 
> <mailto:john.r.r...@oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
>>
>>> what do you suggest as workaround?
>>
>> You could force the class to be initialized when the MH is created. 
>>  This can be done with Class.forName.  It would not exactly give you 
>> the semantics you want, since the init would happen early.
>>
>> Or, you could wrap the buggy MH in a MH which first forces 
>> initialization.  With a switchpoint you can make it a once-only event 
>> (per thread, at least).
>
> ...or move to JDK 8 until 7u with an updated 292 is released.  Doesn't 
> the NoClassDefFoundError bite you anyway?
>
> -- Chris

I'm sure that Jochen will be happy to move to jdk8 but I'm also sure 
that all Groovy users will not be happy to do the same :)

In my opinion, the best is to use Unsafe.ensureClassInitialized() the 
first time you call the BSM, it should be enough.

RĂ©mi

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