If you create a jar file on Mac that contains a nested static main class but not its enclosing class file, attempting to execute it via "java -jar" will fail, but on Linux it will succeed. The two behaviors should be identical (WORA). Since Linux can successfully execute without the enclosing class, Mac should probably be fixed to be identical.

Here's one way to create such a jar file:

Apply this patch, then run the test via jtreg

diff --git a/test/java/util/zip/EntryCount64k.java b/test/java/util/zip/EntryCount64k.java
--- a/test/java/util/zip/EntryCount64k.java
+++ b/test/java/util/zip/EntryCount64k.java
@@ -56,13 +56,12 @@
 
     static final String MAIN_CLASS = "EntryCount64k$Main";
     static final String THIS_CLASS = "EntryCount64k";
- static final String[] SPECIAL_CLASSES = { MAIN_CLASS, THIS_CLASS };
- // static final String[] SPECIAL_CLASSES = { MAIN_CLASS };
+ // static final String[] SPECIAL_CLASSES = { MAIN_CLASS, THIS_CLASS };
+ static final String[] SPECIAL_CLASSES = { MAIN_CLASS };
     static final int SPECIAL_COUNT = 1 + SPECIAL_CLASSES.length;
 
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
- for (int i = (1 << 16) - 3; i < (1 << 16) + 2; i++)
- test(i);
+test(3);
     }
 
     static void test(int entryCount) throws Throwable {
@@ -109,13 +108,13 @@
         checkCanRead(zipFile, entryCount);
         if (shouldUseZip64 != usesZip64)
             throw new Error(details);
- zipFile.delete();
+ // zipFile.delete();
     }
 
     static boolean usesZip64(File zipFile) throws Exception {
         RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(zipFile, "r");
         byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
- raf.seek(raf.length() - buf.length);
+ raf.seek(Math.max(0, raf.length() - buf.length));
         raf.read(buf);
         for (int i = 0; i < buf.length - 4; i++) {
             // Look for ZIP64 End Header Signature


The test will fail with

 stderr: [Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: EntryCount64k
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass(Class.java:1281)
at java.lang.Class.getEnclosingClass(Class.java:1323)
at java.lang.Class.getCanonicalName(Class.java:1438)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: EntryCount64k
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:262)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
... 4 more
]

The resulting jar file looks like:

$ jar tvf test/JTwork/scratch/EntryCount64k-tmp.zip
    53 Mon Mar 30 10:42:12 PDT 2015 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
   477 Mon Mar 30 10:42:12 PDT 2015 EntryCount64k$Main.class
     0 Mon Mar 30 10:42:12 PDT 2015 2

Executing it on Mac gives:

$ java -jar test/JTwork/scratch/EntryCount64k-tmp.zip
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: EntryCount64k
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass(Class.java:1235)
at java.lang.Class.getEnclosingClass(Class.java:1277)
at java.lang.Class.getCanonicalName(Class.java:1392)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: EntryCount64k
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 4 more


If you copy the jar file to Linux, it succeeds:

 $ java -jar /tmp/EntryCount64k-tmp.zip
Main