[UIMA-3853] Compilation failure on IBM Java 8 beta 3

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0uimaFIT
• Component/s: uimaFIT
• Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 04/Jun/14 07:30
• Updated: 04/Jun/14 16:38
• Resolved: 04/Jun/14 16:38

Description

found that using IBM Java 8 beta 3, the build from source failed (not in the
javadocs).
using Oracle Java 8 or IBM Java 7 - build from source is ok.

IBM Java 8 reports this error

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on
project uimafit-core: Compilation failure
[ERROR]
/C:/au/t/uimafit-2.1.0/uimafit-2.1.0-bfs/uimafit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/fit/internal/ReflectionUtil.java:[145,16]
cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol: method isAnnotationPresent(java.lang.Class<capture#1 of ?
extends java.lang.annotation.Annotation>)
[ERROR] location: variable aObject of type java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject

This may be related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4808

Probably not a blocker, but investigation may show some easy work-around.