Jetty.project: Jetty fails to start on OpenJDK 9: "Invalid Java version 9.0.1.3"

[IvoLimmen]

Jetty (bom) version: 9.4.8.v20171121

OpenJDK version:
openjdk version "9.0.1.3"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu build 9.0.1.3+11)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Zulu build 9.0.1.3+11, mixed mode)

[janbartel]

Can you show your start command (maven, command line, embedded?) and the actual output?

[IvoLimmen]

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration.findAndFilterContainerPaths(WebInfConfiguration.java:186)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration.preConfigure(WebInfConfiguration.java:156)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.preConfigure(WebAppContext.java:506)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:544)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:133)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.start(Server.java:418)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.doStart(ContainerLifeCycle.java:107)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.AbstractHandler.doStart(AbstractHandler.java:113)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:385)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
at com.keyprocessor.boot.Main.initialize(Main.java:72)
at com.keyprocessor.boot.Main.main(Main.java:39)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid Java version 9.0.1.3
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.JavaVersion.parseJDK9(JavaVersion.java:71)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.JavaVersion.parse(JavaVersion.java:49)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.JavaVersion.(JavaVersion.java:43)
... 13 more

[IvoLimmen]

I use embedded Jetty. I start the application using a generated script (appassembler-maven-plugin) only added the "--add-modules java.xml.bind" to the arguments to make sure it works.
Btw: version "9.4.7.v20170914" starts correctly with everything unchanged (so just upgrading Jetty makes it fail).

[gregw]

@IvoLimmen it is definitely a new bug. We now need to be a lot more java version sensitive because of java 9 features... but we did not anticipate 4 part version numbers. Fix is coming.

[gregw]

We need to comply with http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223

[gregw]

I've pushed a fix to jetty-9.4.x branch.
The JavaVersion now handles both old format and full JEP223 versions. I have also shaded the class into the jetty-start module rather than duplicate the code.

[gregw]

I've merged the PR, as even though it is not totally agreed, we already had half a solution in the jetty-9.4.x branch. Currently the risk is that we may break anybody that directly consumes jetty-start.jar as a maven dependency. I think the risk is small and they have the option to do excludes and/or use the shaded jar when they upgrade, so let's give it a go.