[Building Sakai] java 6
Steve Swinsburg
s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed May 6 15:27:53 PDT 2009
For those interested, here's another post about the issue, what it
does, and why it's not working anymore:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4976356
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 11:23 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> 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
>
> ---
> 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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