Jacoco failed while instrumenting java project of JDK8(some projects succeed, some failed)

[castl...@gmail.com]

Tomcat started.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndStartAgent(InstrumentationImpl.java:386)
at sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndCallPremain(InstrumentationImpl.java:401)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Class java/util/UUID could not be instrumented.
at org.jacoco.agent.rt.internal_6da5971.core.runtime.ModifiedSystemClassRuntime.createFor(ModifiedSystemClassRuntime.java:140)
at org.jacoco.agent.rt.internal_6da5971.core.runtime.ModifiedSystemClassRuntime.createFor(ModifiedSystemClassRuntime.java:101)
at org.jacoco.agent.rt.internal_6da5971.PreMain.createRuntime(PreMain.java:55)
at org.jacoco.agent.rt.internal_6da5971.PreMain.premain(PreMain.java:47)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: $jacocoAccess
at java.lang.Class.getField(Class.java:1703)
at org.jacoco.agent.rt.internal_6da5971.core.runtime.ModifiedSystemClassRuntime.createFor(ModifiedSystemClassRuntime.java:138)
... 9 more
FATAL ERROR in native method: processing of -javaagent failed

[Marc R. Hoffmann]

Hi,

what is the exact Java version? Please provide the output of

java -version

Note that JaCoCo requires additional options for IBM VMs:
http://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/faq.html

Regards,
-marc