[SIS-438] Make SIS compatible with latest Java versions

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0
• Component/s: Utilities
• Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
• Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
• Created: 04/Nov/18 20:20
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 15:17
• Resolved: 02/Sep/19 13:51

Description

Apache SIS make two assumptions which are not valid anymore since Java 9:

• It assumes that JavaDB is available in the Java installation directory. Note that this is not true anymore even in Java 8 since latest updates (e.g. 1.8.0_191).
• It assumes that JAXB is on the classpath. This is not true anymore since Java 9.

Actions to take:

• We should remove the search for JavaDB in org.apache.sis.internal.metadata.sql.Initializer.forJavaDB lines 511 to 525.
• We need to make above method tolerant to ClassNotFoundException.
• We should add Derby dependency with runtime scope in sis-console.
• We need to add JAXB-API dependency in a Java 11 profile of root pom.xml file.

In addition of making sure that JUnit tests pass, we also need to test sis-console command-line application and sis-openoffice add-in.

Issue Links

• depends upon: SIS-126 Replace the NamespacePrefixMapper hack by NamespaceContext
• depends upon: SIS-430 Remove PACK200 usage
• is a parent of: SIS-473 Build failure with Java 12
• is depended upon by: SIS-561 Upgrade to Java 11
• is depended upon by: SIS-469 Remove support for JAXB internal implementation (JDK 8)