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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-3155:
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Is this "planned" or already decided? If the second, here's some code that 
works:
{code}
            String version = System.getProperty("java.version");
            String minorVersionString = "7";
            if (version.startsWith("1."))
            {
                // old style versions
                minorVersionString = version.split("\\.")[1];
            }
            else
            {
                // new style versions starting with JDK9
                Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(\\d+)([\\.\\-].+)?");
                Matcher m = pattern.matcher(version);
                if (m.find())
                {
                    minorVersionString = m.group(1);
                }
            }
            int javaMinorVersion = Integer.parseInt(minorVersionString);
            is16orLess = javaMinorVersion <= 6;
{code}


> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper class initialization throws 
> NumberFormatException with recent Verona-enabled Java 9 JVMs
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3155
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3155
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.8, 1.8.10
>            Reporter: Uwe Schindler
>            Priority: Critical
>
> Lucene/Solr runs its whole testsuite also with Java 9 EA releases to trigger 
> bugs early. In our tests (Solr + TIKA) we found out that 
> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper throws a NumberFormatException in its 
> static initializer when parsing the "java.version" system property. The 
> reason for failure is a change in Java 9, where version numbers got a new 
> format.
> There are 3 problems:
> - It should not assume that all components are really a number. So it should 
> try/catch NumberFormatException and assign some "unknown" version
> - The code should really use "java.specification.version". This is 
> standardized and only contains digits.
> - The code should also be prepared to handle version numbers without minor 
> version! E.g. Java 9 only has "9" instead of "1.9" as its main version number.
> For the use case I would nuke this check and find a better workaround.
> Relying on String parsing for non-standardized system properties in a static 
> class initializer is the reason why this bug is raised to level "Critical".



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