Hi John, Steve, Please review a fix for bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8066272
The webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8066272/webrev.0/ To support Multi versioned jar files all versioned class files in the META-INF directory will be excluded from the global constant pool, instead these will be regarded as resources and stored in the resource specific bands. Thanks Kumar