JDK-4197744 : jdk1.2.2-A Browsers crashing while attempting to test page.
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: client-libs
  • Sub-Component: javax.swing
  • Affected Version: 1.2.2
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: windows_nt
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 1998-12-15
  • Updated: 1999-02-10
  • Resolved: 1999-02-10
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-4203671 - Repaint of JApplets completely broken
Relates :  
JDK-4197761 - jdk1.2.2-A browser(IE 4.0) crashes while attempting to test page
Description
zelony@eng 1998-12-15

Description:
NT/Netscape 4.08 
Netscape crashed while trying to test Two Applet Page.  
When running Browser tests for jdk1.2.2 build A, the Two Applet Page 
located at: 
http://javaweb.eng.sun.com/~mukundm/BrowserSuite/BrowserSuite122A/Suite/QLhtml/2/8.html#Top

Step to Reproduce:
0) Install Java Plug-in from /usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2/bundles/jdk1.2.2.exe
1) Go to http://javaweb.eng.sun.com/~mukundm/ follow the links to the Quicklook suite for JDK-1.2.2-A.
2) Go to the link for viewing with Two Applets, Java Plug-in, no jar, different codebase.
3) Applets get loaded but menus are frozen, Netscape gets an exception and need to "end task"

Other Configuration Results:
NT/IE4.0 - Didn't Load, IE froze, needed to end task
98/IE 4.0 - Didn't Load, IE froze, needed to end task
98/Netscape 4.06 - Netscape crashed while downloading.
95/Netscape 4.5 - Not able to use menus after download.
95/IE 4.0 - Not able to use menus after download.

Note Steps to Reproduce are the same for all of the configs.
Comments
EVALUATION Although the symptoms differ it turns out that this is an instance of bug 4203671. JApplets were caching the system event queue and since there's now one per AppContext, we were caching the wrong one. hans.muller@Eng 1999-02-10
10-02-1999