[RIVER-438] JDK7 u51 and later causes tests to fail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: River_2.2.2
• Component/s: qa

Environment

JDK7 u51 and/or OpenJDK 7

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Greg Trasuk
• Created: 01/Apr/14 13:33
• Updated: 29/Apr/14 15:10
• Resolved: 29/Apr/14 15:10

Description

In JDK7u51, the default permissions changed. Prior to this update, a Java program was allowed to set up a listener on any port >1024. After the update, the security policy file needs to include a specific permission (SocketPermission "localhost:1024-", "listen") in order to set up a listener outside the ephemeral port range (which varies by OS, but is usually much higher). This affects the codebase server in a River scenario. In particular, the qa package fails most tests (actually fails to start most tests). To fix, the required SocketPermission must be added to the test-specific policy files used by the qa harness.