JDK-6979271 : Application fails to lanuch after upgrading to JRE7
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 7
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2010-08-23
  • Updated: 2011-11-29
  • Resolved: 2010-12-11
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JDK 7
7Resolved
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-7002699 - bugster cannot be launched with latest jre7 deploy PIT build if its resource was cached by older jre
Relates :  
JDK-7083682 - signed application that was succesfully run on Java 6 do not start on Java 7 if cache do not cleared
Description
Cache upgrade scenarios under SQE testbase are failing with JRE7. As part of these scenarios application is  run with older JRE e.g. 6u22 and then same application is run again with JRE7 without clearing the cache. Application fails to launch by throwing the following exception
java.lang.RuntimeException: ERROR: Failed to recover corrupt cache entry
	at com.sun.deploy.cache.CacheEntry.recover(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.deploy.cache.CacheEntry.getCodeSigners(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.security.SigningInfo.getCertificates(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.checkSignedResourcesHelper(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.checkSignedResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Steps to reproduce:
1) Install JRE6u22
2) launch any javaws application e.g. bugster
3) Close the application once it's successfully launched
4) Install JRE7(b106)
5) Launch the same javaws application agains
If application fails to launch by throwing above mentioend exception then bug is reproduced