[jira] [Commented] (UIMA-5369) java9 javadoc requires defs for annotations

["Marshall Schor (JIRA)" <de...@uima.apache.org>]

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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-5369:
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I've managed to install a version of Eclipse that works with Java 9 (4.7 milestone 6 build + a Java9 addon enablement).  It has bugs (e.g., I could not install the subversion plugin because the site it was picking this up from was https  and there was some missing module for handling the https protocol).

After adding an argument to both the compiler and the surefire running to include the javax.xml.bind "module" (which was part of standard Java 8 but no longer there in Java 9), most of the test cases ran.  The failures were of 2 kinds: one where the test was using reflection to set "accessible" an otherwise unaccessable method, and the other having to do with XML formatting.

The first has been locked down by Java 9, so not sure what to do other than drop that particular test.

The second failure kind is an xml generation failure; the generated XML is having different notions of using whitespace to 'format' the output (putting in extra newlines and blanks), so the compare fails.

I'm probably going to temporarily disable these tests with a conditional that will only be active for the "early-access" version of Java 9; this way we'll get a good reminder to attend to these issues (if they're still issues) when Java 9 is officially released.

> java9 javadoc requires defs for annotations
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>
>                 Key: UIMA-5369
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-5369
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core Java Framework
>            Reporter: Marshall Schor
>            Assignee: Marshall Schor
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.10.1SDK, 3.0.0SDK-beta
>
>
> Several things need fixups to allow Java 9 builds.
> # add a <profile> which triggers on <jdk>9
> # the compiler target level needs to be set to 1.9
> # the compiler needs an additional argument to include the javax.xml.bind module, which is otherwise no longer available.
> # The javadoc needs to specify the javadocVersion, otherwise it fails to discover it and uses 0, which causes the "tag" options to be ignored.
> # The file FSRBTIndex is completely commented out in v3.  Javadoc complains.  Move this to the unused-saved folder...
> # Some javadoc errors involving trailing </p> and </html> tags.
> # 1 error due to using a no-longer available "setAccessible" on a method
> # 2 xml miscompares of generated formatted XML due to different formatting styles



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