Please, review the patch for https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8019584
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8019584/webrev.00/ The reason for the failure is that the ObjectInputStream.readFields() method does not throw CNFE as specified when encountering instances of unknown in the object graph to be deserialized. Instead, it leaves the fields in the default state which in this case is "null" and is not valid. Hence, the deserialization validation fails. Since the main cause is in the RMI code, has been there for very long time and changing the behaviour there might have disrupting effects on various 3rd party applications I decided to work around this problem in the JMX code. The workaround adds InvalidObjectException to the list of expected exceptions when processing JMX notifications. It is treated the same way as eg. CNFE - the exception is logged and the notification will be reported as missing. This will resolve the problem on the JMX side. Thanks, -JB-
