JDK-8175391 : Release Note: "sun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax" system property is no longer supported
- Type: Sub-task
- Component: core-libs
- Sub-Component: java.lang:class_loading
- Affected Version: 9
- Priority: P3
- Status: Closed
- Resolution: Delivered
- Submitted: 2017-02-22
- Updated: 2017-09-22
- Resolved: 2017-09-22
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| JDK 9 |
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9Resolved  |
Description
The system property `sun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax` was introduced as a temporary workaround to give customers time to remove their source dependency on calling `ClassLoader.loadClass` with the array syntax that is not supported since JDK 6. This temporary workaround is removed in JDK 9 and setting `sun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax` system property will have no effect to `ClassLoader.loadClass`. Existing code that calls `ClassLoader.loadClass` to create a `Class` object of an array class shall be replaced with `Class.forName`; otherwise it will get `ClassNotFoundException`.