OpenEJB 4.6.0 does not start with jdk8

Question

I'm using OpenEJB in my JUnit tests. It worked fine with jdk7. Unfortunately, it does not start with jdk1.8.0. Any ideas?

C:\javaapps\jdk1.8.0\bin\java 
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10:31:11 SEVERE org.apache.openejb.util.OpenEJBErrorHandler handleUnknownError FATAL ERROR: Unknown error in Assembler.  Please send the following stack trace and this message to users@openejb.apache.org :
 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
    at org.apache.xbean.asm4.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xbean.asm4.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xbean.asm4.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.openejb.util.AnnotationFinder.readClassDef(AnnotationFinder.java:297)
    at org.apache.openejb.util.AnnotationFinder.find(AnnotationFinder.java:163)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentLoader.checkAnnotations(DeploymentLoader.java:1871)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentLoader.discoverModuleType(DeploymentLoader.java:1782)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentsResolver.processUrls(DeploymentsResolver.java:388)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentsResolver.loadFromClasspath(DeploymentsResolver.java:301)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.getModulesFromClassPath(ConfigurationFactory.java:647)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.getOpenEjbConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:524)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.getOpenEjbConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:575)
    at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.getOpenEjbConfiguration(Assembler.java:429)
    at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.build(Assembler.java:408)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:148)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:65)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:296)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:276)

well, send the message to the openejb devs as it says :) – Svetlin Zarev Mar 20 '14 at 12:50 — Svetlin Zarev, Mar 20 '14 at 12:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '14 at 13:04

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yeah, asm used is not compatible with java 8 yeat, should be the case pretty soon btw, hope to get it for 4.7.0

answered Mar 26 '14 at 13:04

Romain Manni-Bucau

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Thanks for the answer and looking forward to 4.7.0 then... :-) – Daniel Bieri Mar 26 '14 at 15:50
asm 5.0.1 was the first release of asm to support java 8 – Joakim Erdfelt May 30 '14 at 17:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '14 at 17:12

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i would guess that the asm library supplied with EJB is not java8 compatible. the java class file format has some new features, and it looks like asm4 is having some problems with it.

answered Mar 20 '14 at 17:12

aepurniet

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