From 33acc2408998caadf106dfa033746b07156ce6a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Kudravtsev <cdr@intellij.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:37:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] class loaders for jdk9

---
 .../intellij/ide/BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.java   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/platform/bootstrap/src/com/intellij/ide/BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.java b/platform/bootstrap/src/com/intellij/ide/BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.java
index 72f186746272..809964954a13 100644
--- a/platform/bootstrap/src/com/intellij/ide/BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.java
+++ b/platform/bootstrap/src/com/intellij/ide/BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import com.intellij.ide.startup.StartupActionScriptManager;
 import com.intellij.idea.Main;
 import com.intellij.openapi.application.PathManager;
 import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
+import com.intellij.openapi.util.SystemInfo;
 import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil;
 import com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader;
 import com.intellij.util.text.StringTokenizer;
@@ -66,6 +67,21 @@ public class BootstrapClassLoaderUtil extends ClassUtilCore {
       builder.allowBootstrapResources();
     }
 
+    if (SystemInfo.IS_AT_LEAST_JAVA9) {
+      // since we can't access rt.jar under jdk9, we need a parent class loader to load standard jdk classes
+      ClassLoader appLoader = BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.class.getClassLoader();
+      ClassLoader parent;
+      try {
+        appLoader.loadClass("org.picocontainer.PicoInitializationException");
+        // the minor WTF is that we use different class loaders when starting IDEA from IDEA
+        parent = appLoader;
+      }
+      catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+        parent = appLoader.getParent(); // use platform class loader for main IDEA start to load only JDK classes with it
+      }
+      builder.parent(parent);
+    }
+
     UrlClassLoader newClassLoader = builder.get();
 
     // prepare plugins