[ARIES-1186] Upgrade proxy-impl to ASM 5 for Java 8 support

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proxy-impl-1.0.2
• Fix Version/s: proxy-impl-1.0.3
• Component/s: Proxy
• Assignee: Daniel Kulp
• Reporter: Harald Wellmann
• Created: 10/May/14 10:46
• Updated: 26/Feb/16 13:18
• Resolved: 15/May/14 18:21

Description

Aries Proxy does not work under Java 8, since it depends on ASM 4 which does not support Java 8.

This is currently a blocker for working with Karaf 3.0.1 under Java 8. (Karaf contains Aries Proxy Impl 1.0.2).

Upgrading to ASM 5.0.2 requires changing a few super() calls in Aries subclasses of ASM classes.

I tried a local build of Aries Proxy Impl 1.0.3-SNAPSHOT with these changes, and the result seems to be ok for Karaf.

The larger part of the issue on Aries side is the dependency on a prehistoric version of Pax Exam which depends on Pax Runner (with additional configuration tweaks from Aries) which does not support Java 8 either, so I haven't been able to run the Proxy integration tests.

Issue Links

• blocks: KARAF-2562 When running karaf under Java 1.8, once the console comes up to the shell, any command cause a NullPointException