JDK-6643773 : New plug-in is crashing IE when used with Kernel JRE
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 6u10
  • Priority: P1
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2007-12-19
  • Updated: 2010-09-08
  • Resolved: 2008-01-29
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JDK 6
6u10 b10Fixed
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Description
Attempting to view any applet from Internet Explorer using the Kernel JRE causes the browser to immediately crash.  This is evidently caused by interaction between the new plug-in and Kernel, as Firefox (which uses the old plug-in) works fine.  It fails even if all of the bundles have been downloaded;  the determining factor is whether or not the JRE has been completely reassembled.

Comments
EVALUATION There were two issues: 1) The new plug-in was looking for "client" and "server" JVMs, but not "kernel". 2) There was a race condition with the "initialized" variable in Java_VM.c. Presumably the fact that Kernel was having to perform a download, and thus dramatically altering the timing, was causing this to manifest.
20-12-2007