[HARMONY-5462] [drlvm][instrument][geronimo] -javaagent option not supported

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 5.0M4, 5.0M5
• Component/s: App-Oriented Bug Reports, DRLVM
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vasily Zakharov
• Created: 05/Feb/08 18:32
• Updated: 04/Aug/08 15:45

Description

Harmony launcher doesn't support -javaagent startup option. That option is a part of J2SE5 spec [1], so it probably should be supported.

The java.lang.instrument package (the option is part of) exists in Harmony classlib, and the question of having the option support has quite a story in discussion [2] [3] [4], but the option is not yet supported. There's even a JIRA issue [5] for this problem for IBM VME.

This issue affects Geronimo, as it uses that option and provides it's own jpa.jar.

[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/instrument/package-summary.html
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel/11197
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel/12200
[4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.harmony.devel/31652
[5] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-3128

Issue Links

• relates to: HARMONY-3128 [classlib][instrument]Harmony fails to add the java agent jar to the classlib on Linux with IBM VME.