[Building Sakai] java 6

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Charles,

Did you have trouble building Sakai under Java 1.6 without the extra  
property? I've been building various versions of Sakai under 1.6 for a  
few weeks without the property set just fine. Whereabouts in Sakai is  
the issue?

This property was true by default in Java 1.5, but has been disabled  
for 1.6. Sun have apparently said they are not going to address this  
and that code should be fixed to deal with it, so if we can find where  
it needs to be done we can get on to it.

Workarounds:

1) Add -Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true for libraries we  
need that are broken.

2) Change loader.loadClass( name ) to Class.forName( name, false,  
loader ) for our internal code.

ref: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6434149

cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870

On 06/05/2009, at 11:00 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:

> We're doing the last 2 weeks of testing for Sakai 2.6 under Java 6.
> We're still building under Java 5. The only configuration change is
> adding -Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true. If we don't run
> into problems during testing, I'm considering running under Java 6 in
> production. I also have a system running Sakai 2.5 under Java 6,
> though we won't use it in production unless we have an emergency
> during the next 2 weeks.
>
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