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Resolves #2290
This PR resolves the Illegal Access Error that has plagued environments using the agent with Scala 2.12 and JDK 11.
The fix is to avoid bumping class file versions to the runtime version, as the agent does normally, for apps that have Scala 2.12 in the environment. Since Scala 2.12 is not always detectable by the agent (we check the system classloader for this - notably, sbt will load Scala classes into custom Scala loaders), there is also a feature flag to manually enable the fix via system property
-Dnewrelic.config.class_transformer.illegal_access_fix=true
.I added an AIT for the IllegalAccessError. The branch for that is here with AITs run results here.