OpenEJB 4.6.0 does not start with jdk8

Question

I'm using OpenEJB in my JUnit tests. It worked fine with jdk7. Unfortunately, it does not start with jdk1.8.0. Any ideas?

C:\javaapps\jdk1.8.0\bin\java 
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10:31:11 SEVERE org.apache.openejb.util.OpenEJBErrorHandler handleUnknownError FATAL ERROR: Unknown error in Assembler.  Please send the following stack trace and this message to [email protected] :
 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
    at org.apache.xbean.asm4.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xbean.asm4.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xbean.asm4.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.openejb.util.AnnotationFinder.readClassDef(AnnotationFinder.java:297)
    at org.apache.openejb.util.AnnotationFinder.find(AnnotationFinder.java:163)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentLoader.checkAnnotations(DeploymentLoader.java:1871)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentLoader.discoverModuleType(DeploymentLoader.java:1782)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentsResolver.processUrls(DeploymentsResolver.java:388)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.DeploymentsResolver.loadFromClasspath(DeploymentsResolver.java:301)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.getModulesFromClassPath(ConfigurationFactory.java:647)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.getOpenEjbConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:524)
    at org.apache.openejb.config.ConfigurationFactory.getOpenEjbConfiguration(ConfigurationFactory.java:575)
    at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.getOpenEjbConfiguration(Assembler.java:429)
    at org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler.build(Assembler.java:408)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:148)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB$Instance.<init>(OpenEJB.java:65)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:296)
    at org.apache.openejb.OpenEJB.init(OpenEJB.java:276)

Answer 1

yeah, asm used is not compatible with java 8 yeat, should be the case pretty soon btw, hope to get it for 4.7.0