[BCEL-173] ClassParser fails to parse JDK classes in Java 8: ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0, 5.1, 5.2
• Fix Version/s: 6.0
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: David Carr
• Created: 14/Apr/14 13:27
• Updated: 14/Jul/16 12:48
• Resolved: 19/Apr/14 21:29

Description

See attached sample project that reproduces the failure. On Java 7, it prints info about the ConcurrentMap class. On Java 8, it encounters the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 18
	at org.apache.bcel.classfile.Constant.readConstant(Constant.java:146)
	at org.apache.bcel.classfile.ConstantPool.<init>(ConstantPool.java:67)
	at org.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.readConstantPool(ClassParser.java:222)
	at org.apache.bcel.classfile.ClassParser.parse(ClassParser.java:136)
	at TestMain.main(TestMain.java:11)

To use the sample project, extract it and then run "./gradlew clean run".

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CXF-5716 CXF build fails with JDK 1.8
• is depended upon by: MSHARED-409 maven-shared-jar fails to analyse JARs containing Java 8 code