[jsword-devel] WebStart and BibleDesktop

[Chris Burrell]

I would tend to agree with the following post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10828863/what-the-use-of-custom-class-loader


On 27 February 2013 19:48, Chris Burrell <christopher at burrell.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi DM
>
> The link seems broken. Is this related to our use of classloaders? I still
> think we shouldn't be using classloaders. Usually, one introduces
> classloaders to isolate parts of the application from other parts. For
> example Tomcat isolates different webapps from each other, but each webapp
> has access to the parent classloader. Or for example, within a webapp,
> Spring might isolate various components such as the servlets from the
> services declared.
>
> What stops us from doing something like:
>
> Resource r = readFileFromJSwordHomes();
> if(r == null) {
>  r = readFileFromClassPath();
> }
>
> This seems much simpler. And even if it is unrelated to the bug you
> mention above, would reduce the complexity in JSword further.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 27 February 2013 11:57, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> There's a bug in Java WebStart that is rendering BibleDesktop unusable.
>> The symptom is that it won't show any module content, but puts up an error
>> message.
>>
>> This started with Java 6 update 23 and is still a bug with the latest
>> Java 7.
>>
>> You can read about the bug here:
>> https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10786421
>>
>> I'll be removing the WebStart links until this is fixed.
>>
>> In Him,
>>         DM
>>
>>
>>
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