Bug ID: JDK-8213011 Running application under 1.8u172 via a DRS rules with the 1.8u192 plugin fail with java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

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JDK 8
8u192Fixed

Running application under 1.8u172 via a DRS rules with the 1.8u192 plugin fail with java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
            sun.misc.JavaUtilJarAccess.ensureInitialization(Ljava/util/jar/JarFile;)V. 
                 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 
             sun.misc.JavaUtilJarAccess.ensureInitialization(Ljava/util/jar/JarFile;)V 


Uninstalling update 192 restores function.

Verified with jre8u201 b04 on win10/x64/IE11. Test app: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorialJWS/samples/uiswing/AccessibleScrollDemoProject/AccessibleScrollDemo.jnlp
22-11-2018
Problem description: The problem is triggered by back-port of JDK-8208754 to JDK 8. It introduced the new method ensureInitialization() and added its invocation to the deploy code. The deploy jars may be executed with different versions of rt.jar. So when relaunch takes place, (i.e. recent versions of deploy jars run with older rt.jar) the call of ensureInitialization() throws NoSuchMethodError. Fix: The invocation of ensureInitialization() should be placed into try-catch block.
02-11-2018
Similar issues: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213097 https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213096
31-10-2018
The problem is triggered by back-port of JDK-8208754 to JDK 8. It introduced the new method ensureInitialization() to JavaUtilJarAccess. Currently the new method gets called inside DeployURLClassPath and that invocation does not take into account the 'relaunch case', (i.e. when deploy jars from one JRE, (e.g. 8u192) are executed using another JRE, (e.g. 8u172)). In other words if the deploy jars contained ensureInitialization() invocation run using rt.jar which does not have this method, the NoSuchMethodError occurs.
30-10-2018

Duplicate :	JDK-8213097 - Unsupported method passed by SSV to earlier JRE version during ruleset hand-off.
Duplicate :	JDK-8213096 - java.lang.NoSuchMethodError when Deployment Rule Set uses the version attribute
Relates :	JDK-8213096 - java.lang.NoSuchMethodError when Deployment Rule Set uses the version attribute