[WEAVER-11] bytecode generated with java 7 or 8 is different and can break on earlier versions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Component/s: modules, normalizer, privilizer
• Assignee: Matthew Jason Benson
• Reporter: Romain Manni-Bucau
• Created: 29/Feb/16 17:04
• Updated: 18/Oct/16 22:18
• Resolved: 17/May/16 20:40

Description

Encountered on bval where building with java 8 makes the bytecode java 8 compliant and breaks under java 7.

See org.apache.bval.util.reflection.Reflection#setAccessible where Utf8 java/lang/reflect/Executable is injected with java 8 and Executable is a java 8 class only.