[SLING-2757] Support Java 8 as a platform

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: Launchpad Base 2.4.0
• Component/s: Launchpad
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Felix Meschberger
• Created: 27/Feb/13 10:29
• Updated: 02/May/14 13:01
• Resolved: 02/May/14 13:01

Description

The Sling launchpad currently has Java platform definitions for Java 5, 6, and 7 but is lacking them for Java 8. As a consequence the framework fails to start on Java 8 platforms with exceptions such as:

26.11.2012 18:13:10.171 ERROR [main] ERROR: Error parsing system bundle export statement: org.osgi.framework; version=1.6, org.osgi.framework.hooks.bundle; version=1.0, org.osgi.framework.hooks.resolver; version=1.0, org.osgi.framework.hooks.service; version=1.1, org.osgi.framework.hooks.weaving; version=1.0, org.osgi.framework.launch; version=1.0, org.osgi.framework.startlevel; version=1.0, org.osgi.framework.wiring; version=1.0, org.osgi.service.packageadmin; version=1.2, org.osgi.service.startlevel; version=1.1, org.osgi.service.url; version=1.0, org.osgi.util.tracker;version="1.5", org.apache.sling.launchpad.api;version=1.1.0, (org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exported package names cannot be zero length.)
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Exported package names cannot be zero length.
at org.apache.felix.framework.util.manifestparser.ManifestParser.normalizeExportClauses(ManifestParser.java:729)
at org.apache.felix.framework.util.manifestparser.ManifestParser.<init>(ManifestParser.java:191)
at org.apache.felix.framework.ExtensionManager.<init>(ExtensionManager.java:221)
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.<init>(Felix.java:374)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.SlingFelix.<init>(SlingFelix.java:45)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.Sling.createFramework(Sling.java:343)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.impl.Sling.<init>(Sling.java:212)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.app.MainDelegate$1.<init>(MainDelegate.java:183)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.app.MainDelegate.start(MainDelegate.java:183)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.app.Main.doStart(Main.java:386)
at org.apache.sling.launchpad.app.Main.doStart(Main.java:322)

Issue Links

• is a clone of: SLING-2681 Support Java 8 as a platform