Updating ASM library version
- Change
org.ow2.asm:asm
version in pom.xml
file. This defines version of ASM used by the javaagent at runtime and during Maven build on command line. - Change
org.objectweb.asm
bundle-version in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
. This defines version of ASM used to compile the javaagent in PDE. This has no effect on command line Maven build or runtime!.- Make sure the new version of ASM is part of PDE target platform. You may need to copy ASM jar to the target platform manually as PDE does not download project dependencies automatically.
- If adding support for new Java classfile version
- Update
ClassfileTransformer#ASM_API
to indicate ASM API version used by the javaagent. This defines what bytecode instructions ASM is able to interpret and process. Classfiles that use unsupported instructions will fail instrumentation and the javaagent will print Could not instrument class ...
error message to stderr. - Update
ClassfileTransformer#MAX_CLASS_MAJOR
to match maximum java classfile version. The javaagent silently skips instrumentation of classfiles with newer version. - Update
StratumTests#testAvailableStrata
to indicate Java version(s) that are not supported by the javaagent. Typically this is N+1 compared to ClassfileTransformer#MAX_CLASS_MAJOR
.
- Build the javaagent jar file by running
mvn clean package
command from org.eclipse.jdt.launching.javaagent/
directory. This creates org.eclipse.jdt.launching.javaagent/target/javaagent-shaded.jar
jar file, which includes the javaagent and ASM classes.- Note that ASM classes are relocated to
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.internal.org.objectweb.asm
package to avoid possible conflicts with applicates being debugged.
- Copy
javaagent-shaded.jar
to org.eclipse.jdt.launching/lib
folder. This is the javaagent jar used at runtime. - Run the tests, ideally using all supported java versions.
- Commit all changed files to git and submit the changes to Gerrit for review.