Fails to build on Oracle JDK 9

[mpkorstanje]

Summary

Building with Oracle JDk 9 results in the failure of these modules:

[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] Cucumber-JVM: OpenEJB .............................. FAILURE [  0.291 s]
[INFO] Cucumber-JVM: Android .............................. FAILURE [  1.807 s]
[INFO] Examples: Pax Exam: Calculator Test ................ FAILURE [  1.973 s]
[INFO] Examples: Wicket application tested with Selenium .. FAILURE [  0.432 s]
[INFO] Examples: Webbit WebSockets tested with Selenium ... FAILURE [  0.373 s]

Additionally the plugin used to execute the groovys scripts that generate the step definition annotations and lambdas complain about illegal access.

Webbit Websocks

Fixed.

Depends on: Ardesco/driver-binary-downloader-maven-plugin#76

OpenEJB

Does not appear to have a a fix yet.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMEE-2038

Fixed.

Android

No longer supported in core.

Does not appear to have a a fix yet.

Robot electric fails because their version of ASM does not support java 9.

Wicket

Fixed.

Depends on: #1041

Fails because of :

WARNING: Illegal reflective access by cucumber.deps.com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.util.Fields (file:/home/mpkorstanje/.m2/repository/io/cucumber/cucumber-jvm-deps/1.0.6/cucumber-jvm-deps-1.0.6.jar) to field java.util.TreeMap.comparator

[mpkorstanje]

@SierraGolf, @friederbluemle, @fluxtah, @mfellner, you've all worked on the android module at some point in time. Could you have a look at the android problems.

[mpkorstanje]

@rmannibucau can you look at OpenEJB?

[rmannibucau]

@mpkorstanje: openejb didnt upgrade to asm6 yet so it can run on java9 but not read java 9 bytecode yet, test classes should be compiled with java 8

[mpkorstanje]

@rmannibucau Cheers. Would you be able to drop a note when that happens?

[rmannibucau]

Sure

[cwiejack]

Hi,
I just found out, that with a new dependency "org.apache.tomee:openejb-core:8.0.0-M1" and some adjustments for jaxb, the failsafe and cargo plugin, the current Master Branch builds with jdk11 without any code changes. So this should be a good sign that with a stable openejb release cucumber could be java9+ compatible.

[rmannibucau]

openejb-core 7.1.0 should be usable as well (depends which javaee version is targetted)