A few weeks ago, I came upon the Adopt openjdk program, launched by the London Java User Group. I’ve decided to give it a try and for that to leverage the Dev@Cloud and FOSS program from CloudBees.
While building OpenDJ I hit a roadblock : XJC is defective with OpenJDK 8 and prevents us from building the DSML gateway that is part of the OpenDJ project. It’s only recently when the openjdk bug database was made publicly available that I found it was a known P1 issue, yet still not resolved.
Recently someone filed a bug against OpenDJ for failing with openjdk 8, so we paid more attention, found the cause of the failure and fixed it. And now OpenDJ directory server is working fine on openjdk 8. We are keeping an automatic build and test with openjdk8 (*) to make sure things will work when Java 8 is released.
Next steps will be to verify that OpenDJ still works with the beta version of jdk8 of IBM Java virtual machine.
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* If you’re not familiar with OpenDJ nightly tests, do not try to interpret the results out there. Some of those complex replication tests are unfortunately sensitive to processor speed, thread timing and synchronization.So they tend to fail often on single CPU virtual machines where resources are unknown. They are fully passing on 2 or more CPU machines.
Filed under: Directory Services, Java Tagged: directory-server, ForgeRock, java, ldap, opendj, openjdk, openjdk8, opensource, testing
