JDK-6888876 : improve error handling of webstart/plugin XML parser
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 6u18
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2009-10-06
  • Updated: 2013-11-01
  • Resolved: 2010-06-01
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Description
our XML parsing of JNLP files is not robust enough.  sometimes when JNLP files has syntax error, we did not report error and just ignore and continue.  instead, we should report error to user instead.

e.g  missing /> in <applet-desc> or <update>

see JIRA issue:  http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-4843

Our JNLP XML parser should be able to catch these error and report to user; instead of ignoring the error and continue to launch.

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EVALUATION We will alert in the java console. The execution will not be stopped because there are existing malformed (jfx pacakge, and netbeans generated malformed jnlp files) jnlp files on the web. We don't want to them to stop work in 6u20.
23-02-2010

EVALUATION for example, our XML parser should be able to detect error in this JNLP file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://www.vancouver2010.com/ns/javafx/MedalVisualizer/" href="snowapp_browser.jnlp"> <information> <title>snowapp</title> <vendor>EffectiveUI</vendor> <homepage href=""/> <description>snowapp</description> <offline-allowed/> <shortcut> <desktop/> </shortcut> </information> <resources> <j2se version="1.5+"/> <extension name="JavaFX Runtime" href="http://dl.javafx.com/1.2/javafx-rt.jnlp"/> <jar href="snowapp.jar" main="true"/> <jar href="lib/json_simple-1.1.jar"/> </resources> <applet-desc name="snowapp" main-class="com.sun.javafx.runtime.adapter.Applet" width="990" height="600"> <param name="MainJavaFXScript" value="com.effectiveui.snow.Main"> </applet-desc> <update check="background"/> </jnlp> Problem is <param> is missing "/" in the end. We should detect this and print out alert.
16-12-2009