Upgrade to Jetty 9.3 or newer

[m0rkeulv]

I wish for Smartfox to upgrade to Jetty 9.3 newer.

While Smartfox can be configured to run java 1.8 extentions the embedded Jetty server does not seem to happy about it.
Now there might be some workarounds for the older jetty and for all i know it might be able to execute java 8 bytecode, but in my case it keeps causing problems. i want to quick and easy make prototypes with spring-boot but this old jetty version fighting me all the way.

My main issue is that jetty don't seem to like annotations very well, and i have googled an tried a few workarounds
(upgrading jettys ASM lib to v5 amongst others) but nothing seems to solve my problem, so my current solution is to run a separate application server which is less than optimal.

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java.lang.RuntimeException: Error scanning entry javassist/util/proxy/SerializedProxy.class from jar ...
8190437182313700222.dir/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parseJar(AnnotationParser.java:910)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parse(AnnotationParser.java:828)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationConfiguration$ParserTask.call(AnnotationConfiguration.java:159)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationConfiguration$1.run(AnnotationConfiguration.java:531)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:607)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:536)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException
        at org.objectweb.asm.MethodVisitor.visitParameter(Unknown Source)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.b(Unknown Source)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.accept(Unknown Source)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.accept(Unknown Source)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.scanClass(AnnotationParser.java:971)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parseJarEntry(AnnotationParser.java:953)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.annotations.AnnotationParser.parseJar(AnnotationParser.java:906)
        ... 6 more

[Bax]

Upgrade to Jetty 9.3 is in progress. This will be part of the next release of SFS2X, due in a some weeks.

[Lapo]

Hi,
those errors don't seem to be indicating any specific issues going on with Java 8. Jetty 9.1 (currently used in SFS2X) does support Java 8.

[m0rkeulv]

Any news on the Jetty 9.3 upgrade ?

@Lapo
My errors where java 8 - jetty 9.1 related.
I could compile and run my war files just fine on Smartfoxs jetty 9.1 server if i compiled them as java 1.7 bytecode. but if i switched to 1.8 bytecode as target Jettys internal Annotation parser refused to cooperate. Normal Smartfox extensions works with java 1.8 but i have to stick with 1.7 as a lot of my code is shared between webservices running on Jetty and normal extensions running in Smartfox.

[coolboy714cp]

For the record, I also am waiting on the Jetty upgrade. You're not the only one.