[Coco] Drivewire 4 vs. Java 9

[James Jones]

That should be possible, and it's probably the simplest thing to do short
term.

Aaron Wolfe has kindly pointed me at the source code. I'll go looking for
where that class is used. I also want to take a shot at commenting the code.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
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> James, looks like they screwed us (again). We'll probably have to revert
> to older versions of Java just to run DW4, since there's no one keeping dw4
> up to date :-(
> BTW, I'm running 8.144 on Win7. Looks like I won't be updating anytime
> soon.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Nov 16, 2017 10:59 am
> Subject: [Coco] Drivewire 4 vs. Java 9
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> Anybody have luck running drivewire 4 under Java 9? I'm gettingJava
> HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC
> wasdeprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future
> release.Launch failed: ClassCastException:java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader
> cannot be cast tojava.base/java.net.URLClassLoaderand searching for that
> exception text turns up a lot of posts from peoplehaving issues running
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