Bug ID: JDK-6788906 Applet is freezed when JSObject.getWindow()/call() is used with a large amount of string data

Type: Bug
Component: deploy
Sub-Component: plugin
Affected Version: 6u10,6u11-rev

Priority: P3
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
OS: windows_vista
CPU: x86

Submitted: 2008-12-24
Updated: 2010-11-03
Resolved: 2009-05-13

JDK 6
6u14 b01Fixed

When string object with the size of about 5 M-bytes is submitted, Applet is freezed with such a "JVM heartbeat .. dead, send ts:  6323053543, now ts: 6333053288, dT 9999745" message.

- STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM:

OS: Windows XP SP2
Browser: IE6/IE7
JRE: 6u10/6u11

1. Make "test" directory and change the directory
2. Save the following codes
3. Compile the following java code (with -classpath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\jre\lib\plugin.jar")
4. Create TestApplet.jar with test\TestApplet$1.class and test\TestApplet.class
5. Run the following HTML code
6. Input "5" as the data size in Applet


- EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR:

EXPECTED:

Such a "JVM heartbeat" message does not appear like JRE 6u07.

ACTUAL:

When string object with the size of about 5 M-bytes is submitted, Applet is freezed with such a "JVM heartbeat .. dead, send ts:  6323053543, now ts: 6333053288, dT 9999745" message.

OUTPUT (Java Console)     xxx: Japanese
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
basic: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: sun.plugin.util.GrayBoxPainter$GrayBoxProgressListener@152544e
basic: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
basic: Applet resized and added to parent container
basic: PERF: AppletExecutionRunnable - applet.init() BEGIN ; jvmLaunch dt 689351 us, pluginInit dt 2999658 us, TotalTime: 3689009 us
basic: Applet initialized
basic: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: sun.plugin.util.GrayBoxPainter$GrayBoxProgressListener@152544e
basic: Applet made visible
basic: Starting applet
basic: Applet started
basic: Told clients applet is started
Write size : 5242880 byte
Start : Thu Dec 18 22:56:32 JST 2008
JVM heartbeat .. dead, send ts: 48285414798, now ts: 48295408592, dT 9993794 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

For the following source code, "JVM heartbeat" message is always displayed when the value of 5M or more is input, while Java Plug-in 2 is available.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
package test;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.swing.*;

import netscape.javascript.JSObject;

public class TestApplet extends JApplet {

  int size = 1;
  JTextField inpText=new JTextField(2);
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
  public TestApplet() throws HeadlessException {
  }
  
  public void init() {
    JPanel p1=new JPanel();
    p1.setBackground(new Color(0xFFFFFF));
    this.getContentPane().add(p1);
    inpText.setText(String.valueOf(size));
    JButton btn=new JButton("exe");
    btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
            execute();
        }
    });
    p1.add(new JTextArea("size : "));
    p1.add(inpText);
    p1.add(new JTextArea("M  "));
    p1.add(btn);

  }

  public void execute() {
        JSObject win = JSObject.getWindow(this);
        int sizeWrite = Integer.valueOf(inpText.getText()).intValue();

        size = sizeWrite * 1048576;
        StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer(size);
        for (int i1 = 0; i1 < size; i1++) {
          stringBuffer.append('a');
        }
        System.out.println("Write size : " + size +" byte");
        System.out.println("Start : " + new Date());
        win.call("setResultXml", new Object[]{stringBuffer.toString()});
        System.out.println("Done  : " + new Date());
  }
}
---------- END SOURCE ------------

---------- BEGIN HTML-SOURCE ----------
<HTML>

<HEAD>

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function setResultXml(resultXml) {
}
</SCRIPT>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

<h1>LiveConnect Write Test</h1>

<OBJECT classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
     width="200" height="100" align="baseline">
     <PARAM NAME="code" VALUE="test.TestApplet.class">
     <PARAM NAME="codebase" VALUE=".">
     <PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="application/x-java-applet">
     <PARAM NAME="archive" VALUE="TestApplet.jar">
     <PARAM NAME="MAYSCRIPT" VALUE="true">
        No JRE support for APPLET !
</OBJECT>
<FORM name="testForm">
  <INPUT type="hidden" name="testItem">
</FORM>

</BODY>
</HTML>
---------- END HTML-SOURCE ------------

Bug WorkaroundWhen Java Plug-in 2 option is not checked, the above test program works normally.

SUGGESTED FIX webrev: http://sa.sfbay.sun.com/projects/deployment_data/6u14/6788906.0 testcase: http://j2se.east.sun.com/deployment/www/tests/1.6.0_14/6788906/

08-01-2009

EVALUATION This problem is the dual of 6786860, where the in-browser JVM runs out of memory, only in the Java-to-JavaScript direction. Because the failure occurs during deserialization of the message initiating the Java-to-JavaScript call, there is no extra copy of the data to eliminate. The fix for this issue is to increase the heap size of the in-browser JVM on all platforms. It is unfortunately very difficult to trap this error and return an error condition to the calling JVM because of how the message passing subsystem works. No attempt to make this error handling generally more robust has been made with this fix.

08-01-2009

EVALUATION This is the dual problem of 6786860, but in the Java -> JavaScript direction rather than JavaScript -> Java.

24-12-2008