JDK 11 Multi-Release jar failing in JBoss EAP 7.2

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.2

Issue

• JDK 11 Multi-Release jar failing in JBoss EAP 7.2

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: No class provided, and an appropriate one cannot be found.
	at deployment.log4j-2.9.0.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.callerClass(LogManager.java:525)
	at deployment.log4j-2.9.0.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:550)
	at deployment.log4j-2.9.0.war//org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:537)
	at deployment.log4j-2.9.0.war//reproducer.Init.<clinit>(Init.java:11)
	... 42 more

Resolution

Apply CP2 or later when available

Root Cause

Content from issues.jboss.org is not included.JBEAP-16624 - JDK 11 Multi-Release jars - Classes for newer versions are not loaded and VFSResourceLoader doesn't take into account the Multi-Release manifest attribute value

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