Latest update breaks Java font handling (e.g. renders Jasper Reports unusuable)

[FerhatSavci]

The "stix" fonts coming with the underlying CENTOS 7.4 release mess up Java font handling.

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
at sun.font.CompositeStrike.getStrikeForSlot(CompositeStrike.java:75)
at sun.font.CompositeStrike.getFontMetrics(CompositeStrike.java:93)
at sun.font.Font2D.getFontMetrics(Font2D.java:415)
at java.awt.Font.defaultLineMetrics(Font.java:2176)
at java.awt.Font.getLineMetrics(Font.java:2246)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.SimpleTextLineWrapper.determineLeading(SimpleTextLineWrapper.java:390)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.SimpleTextLineWrapper.getGeneralFontInfo(SimpleTextLineWrapper.java:342)
...

Something along the lines of:

USER root
RUN yum erase stix-fonts.noarch
RUN yum erase stix-math-fonts.noarch

should help. [Edit: but doesn't. For some inexplicable reason, the stix fonts are a dependency of openjdk and openjdk is uninstalled when you remove the fonts ???!]