Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread org.apache.maven.user
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:02:46 + org.apache.maven.u...@io7m.com wrote: Hello. I've run into a strange but easily reproduced problem with the jar files generated by Maven. Essentially, if I generate a jar file containing a large number of files (= 65536, in practice), then javac becomes

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread George Wilson
Unfortunately, my company's security policies do not allow for the downloading and building of external projects without approval from IT and security so I cannot really test your code (not without going to a committee, etc...). Any chance you can post the errors you are getting? Is this a JVM

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi George, That's a new one on me. Can you build in an isolated VM? On a personal machine while at work? Not being able to try out code from the Internet seems like a crippling restriction to me. -Curtis On Nov 13, 2013 1:34 PM, George Wilson rmws...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, my

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread George Wilson
A crippling restriction or not, it is company policy which I do not have any authority over. Its one thing to try a snippet from stack overflow but the restriction is in regards to building a larger project like a maven build. The concern is not being able to evaluate what the code or individual

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread Curtis Rueden
Hi, org.apache.maven.u...@io7m.com wrote: Can anyone else reproduce this problem? OK, I ran the example (mvn clean package) and the project builds successfully on my system: $ mvn -v Apache Maven 3.1.1 (0728685237757ffbf44136acec0402957f723d9a; 2013-09-17 10:22:22-0500) Maven home:

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread org.apache.maven.user
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:33:51 -0800 George Wilson rmws...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, my company's security policies do not allow for the downloading and building of external projects without approval from IT and security so I cannot really test your code (not without going to a committee,

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread Doug Douglass
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Curtis Rueden ctrue...@wisc.edu wrote: Hi, org.apache.maven.u...@io7m.com wrote: Can anyone else reproduce this problem? OK, I ran the example (mvn clean package) and the project builds successfully on my system: I ran the sample project on a couple

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread George Wilson
Hi Curtis, I apologize, I had not recognized that you were not the OP. If you just look at it, you can see that it doesn't do anything bad. - You are correct, I did not bother to download it as it was presented as being a project with several thousand classes. Perhaps in the future I should

Re: Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-13 Thread org.apache.maven.user
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:52:02 -0700 Doug Douglass douglass.d...@gmail.com wrote: I ran the sample project on a couple systems with different results. ... So it appears to be JDK bug. Thanks. Looks like I'll be taking this up with the OpenJDK people. M

Strange issue with generated jars

2013-11-12 Thread org.apache.maven.user
Hello. I've run into a strange but easily reproduced problem with the jar files generated by Maven. Essentially, if I generate a jar file containing a large number of files (= 65536, in practice), then javac becomes unable to resolve classes from that jar file. This only occurs with jars produced