Bug ID: JDK-8162527 [JAXP] XSLT: Investigate why bumping the default class file version to 49 (Java 5.0) or higher for bytecode generation doesn't work.

JDK-8162527 : [JAXP] XSLT: Investigate why bumping the default class file version to 49 (Java 5.0) or higher for bytecode generation doesn't work.

Type: Enhancement
Component: xml
Sub-Component: javax.xml.transform
Affected Version: 9

Priority: P4
Status: Open
Resolution: Unresolved

Submitted: 2016-07-26
Updated: 2018-08-29

Related Reports

Relates :	JDK-8163121 - BCEL: update to the latest 6.0 release
Relates :	JDK-8153082 - Update XSLT compiler to generate classes that invoke addReads
Relates :	JDK-8207315 - [lworld] Examine class file generators in JDK that may need upgrade to support LWorld

Description

While implementing JDK-8153082 we tried to bump the default class file version for byte code generation in GenClass,java to Java 1.5.0 (49) some tests (in particular SAXTFactoryTest) started failing. It is not clear what in those tests is not compatible with Java 5 class file version. This should be investigated to understand if we could bump the default class file version of the XSLT compiler to at least 5.0 (49).