[ARIES-817] Upgrade to asm 4 for java 7 support

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Application, Blueprint, Proxy
• Assignee: David Jencks
• Reporter: David Jencks
• Created: 26/Jan/12 23:39
• Updated: 14/Jun/14 06:07
• Resolved: 14/Jun/14 06:07

Description

asm 3 generates java 7 incompatible classes. We need to upgrade to asm 4 to be able to support running on java 7. There are a few simple code changes needed in the proxy module, and a couple nasty workarounds for newly final methods and private fields. There is also a lot of work in integration tests and pom versions to make everything else work.

I plan to add patches here as I proceed and when everything works I'll think about committing.