Dalibor Topic suggested that I pose this question to the jigsaw-dev list:
Starting (at least) with build 148, resource location has changed in a
way which is not backward compatible with JDK 8. The following
experiment shows the behavior change:
1) Compile the following class using JDK 8 and put it in a jar file
called z.jar:
public class public class ResourceLocationProblem
{
public static void main(String... args) throws Exception
{
String resourceName = "/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF";
Class dummyClass = (new Object()).getClass();
Object is = dummyClass.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
if (is != null) { System.out.println("Resource found."); }
else { System.out.println("Resource NOT found!"); }
}
}
2) Then run the program thusly:
java -cp z.jar ResourceLocationProblem
On JDK 8, the program produces this output...
Resource found.
...while on JDK 9 build 151 the program produces this output...
Resource NOT found!
Dalibor pointed me to the following proposal, which indicates that some
significant changes have been made to resource location:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jpms-spec-experts/2016-September/000392.html
However, I am not trying to use any jigsaw features. This test program
suggests that JDK 9 will break many legacy applications.
1) Is the observed behavior change a bug?
2) What is the recommended workaround?
Thanks,
-Rick
