On 11/14/2014 05:34 PM, Bill Pugh wrote:
Following up on a email thread started by Dalibor Topic…
In short, back porting jrt-fs.jar to work under Java 7 would be very helpful to
the FindBugs project.
At length:
FindBugs needs access to the classifies for the standard Java libraries in
order to analyze code. Right now, we access that through the file system, but
that won’t be possible under jigsaw and JEP 220: Modular Run-Time Images.
The JRL file system is what is recommended and needed to support FindBugs
access to standard library classifies under Java 9. Having to support two
different mechanisms for accessing standard library classifies would be
annoying. We could move entirely over to the JRL file system. However, FindBugs
is committed to running under Java 7 for a long time, at least several more
years, and it would be good if FindBugs support for Java 9 were available
within a year, if not sooner.
So, if jrt-fs.jar ran under Java 7, we could just rewrite that section of
FindBugs to use the JRL file system, and have one version of the code running
for Java 7+.
Bill
This seems to work at least on my laptop :)
https://github.com/forax/jigsaw-jrtfs
I end up writing a small tool that backport the source of JDK9 with no
modification
and re-implementing the necessary API pieces of the Java 8 used by jrt-fs.
cheers,
Rémi
