Not possible to use javax.swing.JLayer as context

[lindmik]

Java 7 adds a new class javax.swing.JLayer, which we use for the root components of the tabs of a tabbed pane. When selecting the tab as the context in Robot we get an TestFailedException stating that the current context is not a "correct context".

Adding javax.swing.JLayer to the expected classes array in DefaultContextVerifier fixes the issue, but it creates a dependency on Java 7 from SwingLibrary.

[jussimalinen]

Damn... I think we should probably drop java 1.6 support at some point, but we cant drop that support yet. If you have an idea how to do this so that we still support 1.6, we could then fix this right away.

[lindmik]

Only thing I can think of is reflection. Something like

try {
    Class class1 = Class.forName("javax.swing.JLayer");
    classes.add(class1);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
    // Java version < 1.7
}

Though, I noticed that your tests use a mocking framework to create instances of the classes, and javax.swing.JLayer is a final class which cannot be mocked.

[pekkaklarck]

RF 2.9 is is going to require Jython 2.7 which in turn requires Java 7. Those who need to still use Java 6 (or 5) can obviously keep on using SwingLibrary with RF 2.8 or older, but perhaps they could also keep on using older SwingLibrary versions. Perhaps creating one more minor release with Java 6 support and then dropping it in the next major release would be a good plan.