Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

IBM VM?

If so it's probably not an issue for Harmony but for IBM :)

2006/2/21, Vladimir Strigun <vstrigun@xxxxxxxxx>:
> We had discussion about bug-to-bug compatibility and it was decided to
> solve problems at the moment when they appear. So I have the 1st
> problem (below you can find the steps for reproducing it):
>
> 1. Compile any java class and put it to jre/bin folder (I used Hello.class)
> 2. run java Hello (everything works fine)
> 3. run java -classpath p:; Hello
>
> Result: NoClassDefFoundError
>
> If I use same command with RI (Sun and BEA) this test passes.
> I've found in documentation [1] that "if you want to include the
> current directory in the search path, you must include "." in the new
> settings".
> So, it looks like that we have bug in RI, but our implementation works
> with strict correspondence to the documentation.
>
> URLClassLoader can't load this class because searchURLs parameter in
> findClassImpl does not contain current directory and includes only
> "p:/". So, IMO problem is inside VM kernel classes.
>
> What do you think we should do with this issue?
>
>
> [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/classpath.html
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir Strigun,
> Intel Middleware Products Division
>


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