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  2. JDK-8204862

Java atk wrapper does not load any more

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      ADDITIONAL SYSTEM INFORMATION :
      Linux Debian, the issue starts with openjdk 9, and happens with 10 and 11 too.

      A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
      Hello,

      On Debian-based systems (ubuntu notably), the java atk wrapper can not be loaded any more, and thus applications are completely inaccessible.

      Things used to work in openjdk8 this way:

      - conf/accessibility.properties contains
      assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper
      - $JVM/jre/lib/ext contains links to java-atk-wrapper.jar and libatk-wrapper.so

      But apparently the ext mechanism was removed in openjdk9, thus breaking this completely. Apparently it is replaced by the platform loader, but how can we make the platform loader load java-atk-wrapper.jar?

      Samuel

      REGRESSION : Last worked in version 8u172

      STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
      Have conf/accessibility.properties contain

      assistive_technologies=org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper

      EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
      EXPECTED -
      Java applications should start fine.
      ACTUAL -
      Whatever the application, we get the following stack trace:

      Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Assistive Technology not found: org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Toolkit.newAWTError(Toolkit.java:472)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Toolkit.fallbackToLoadClassForAT(Toolkit.java:488)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(ForEachOps.java:183)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$2$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:177)
      at java.base/java.util.HashMap$KeySpliterator.forEachRemaining(HashMap.java:1608)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:484)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:474)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:150)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(ForEachOps.java:173)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
      at java.base/java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEach(ReferencePipeline.java:497)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Toolkit.loadAssistiveTechnologies(Toolkit.java:532)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:613)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.getToolkit(Window.java:1375)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:518)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:549)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:423)
      at java.desktop/javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:224)
      at show_java.<init>(show_java.java:5)
      at show_java.main(show_java.java:9)
      Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.GNOME.Accessibility.AtkWrapper
      at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:582)
      at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:190)
      at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499)
      at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
      at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:374)
      at java.desktop/java.awt.Toolkit.fallbackToLoadClassForAT(Toolkit.java:485)
      ... 18 more

      While there is java-atk-wrapper.jar in /usr/share/java.

      ---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
      Any java application has the issue.
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      CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
      Setting

      export CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/java-atk-wrapper.jar

      makes the atk wrapper loadable, but that's not something we can do on the whole distribution :)

      FREQUENCY : always


            prr Philip Race
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