[kaffe] Resin 2.1.12 runs on Kaffe smoothly

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Hi Jim,

jserv at linux2.cc.ntu.edu.tw wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   Recently, I attempt to use Caucho's Resin Application Server under
> Kaffe 1.1.4. Fortunately, I found that Resin did work smoothly without any
> tunning! The version I use is 2.1.12, and it dumps some information as
> followings:

Thanks a lot for the heads-up! I've added Resin to our application
compatibility page.

> WARNING Bad bytecode! Illegal exception table entry: start_pc=140650934
> is not lower than end_pc=140650934 in method
> com/caucho/naming/ContextImpl.dereference((Ljava/lang/Object;Ljavax/naming/Name;Lcom/caucho/naming/AbstractModel;)Ljava/lang/Object;)
> See Java Virtual Machine Specification 2nd Edition $4.7.3 for details.
> Please report this bug to the developers of the application you're
> running on kaffe.
> A simple fix might be to use another java compiler to build the
> application.
> WARNING Bad bytecode! Illegal exception table entry: start_pc=140650934
> is not lower than end_pc=140650934 in method
> com/caucho/naming/ContextImpl.dereference((Ljava/lang/Object;Ljavax/naming/Name;Lcom/caucho/naming/AbstractModel;)Ljava/lang/Object;)
> See Java Virtual Machine Specification 2nd Edition $4.7.3 for details.
> Please report this bug to the developers of the application you're
> running on kaffe.
> A simple fix might be to use another java compiler to build the
> application.

Those warnings indicate that the compiler used to build Resin is buggy
;) Sun's JDK silently ignores bad exception tables, where we prefer to
tell the users that their compiler is broken wrt JVM specification.

> Some hints might be useful:
>   1. configure Resin with 
>      --enable-jni \
>      --with-java-home=$(KAFFE_HOME) \
>      --with-jni-include=$(KAFFE_HOME)/include 
>   2. while compiling, you would encounter some errors, just ignores.

I've missed out on IRC on the discussion of the errors. Could you give
us some more details?

cheers,
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