FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
1.6.0_10-beta-b21

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Windows XP SP2

EXTRA RELEVANT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION :
InternetExplorer 7

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
When trying to display the Applet delivered with IGrafx Flowcharter 2003 in IE7, I get a NullPointerException.
With JRE's prior to 1.6.0_10, the Applet is working, therefore this must be a regression.
WIth Firefox2 it works.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Execute the Applet in IE7, which is used by IGrafx Flowcharter 2003 to display diagrams in a webpage.
I could provide a zipfile with that applet.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
the diagram is shown in the applet
ACTUAL -
NPE, no applet

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

          at com.sun.deploy.util.DeployAWTUtil.invokeAndWait(Unknown Source)

          at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.runOnEDT(Unknown Source)

          at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)

          at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

          at XMLPlayer.setSize(Unknown Source)

          at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletStubImpl$1.run(Unknown Source)

          at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletStubImpl.appletResize(Unknown Source)

          at java.applet.Applet.resize(Unknown Source)

          at java.applet.Applet.resize(Unknown Source)

          at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable$1.run(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)

          at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Ausnahme: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException



REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
no source, just an applet. Ask IGrafx for the source...
---------- END SOURCE ----------

Release Regression From : 6u5
The above release value was the last known release where this 
bug was not reproducible. Since then there has been a regression.