JDK 9 support

The project currently fails on JDK 9:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: [B cannot be cast to [C

To reproduce:

import org.boon.core.reflection.Reflection;
@Test
    public void testJdk9Support() throws Exception {
        Reflection.respondsTo(null, "dummy");
    }

The above fails in Reflection.java’s nested static initializers. I’ve traced the problem to org.boon.core.reflection.FastStringUtils#toCharArray(java.lang.String) which seem to rely on sun.misc.unsafe. To checkout a full fledged example, see BoonConcurrentTest but I don’t think it’s needed to illustrate the problem.

Thanks!

[nilskp]

Guess this project is dead.

[benjwarner]

We have a legacy system that was having this problem.

Using the system property:

-Dorg.boon.faststringutils.disable=true

…seemed to fix the problem.