I have done a rebuild [1] of Java packages using Java 8. About 20 % of packages currently fail, but mostly for reasons not related directly to Java 8. Some of problems I have found: 1) Some collection iterators return elements in different order - most common problem, which breaks tests in many packages and who knows what else. Solution: work with upstream to fix buggy code that relies on order of elements in unordered collections. 2) Assertion failure jn javadoc - rhbz#1082186 3) Some new methods were added, which breaks existing code. Examples: java.util.Map - remove(K,V) java.util.List - sort(Comparator) java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable - getAnnotatedBounds() sun.security.jgss.spi.GSSCredentialSpi - impersonate(GSSNameSpi) Solution: patch code to implement new methods 4) java.lang.reflect.Proxy - fields of proxy classes cannot be accessed using reflection any longer? [1] The rebuild was done for testing purposes only. Resulting Builds are not included in Fedora. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
