[jsword-devel] WebStart and BibleDesktop

[Chris Burrell]

Actually, I think that was my fault - I cleared the Java cache and it
worked fine.
Chris



On 27 February 2013 22:53, Chris Burrell <christopher at burrell.me.uk> wrote:

> I got this:
>
> com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource:
> http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/nightly/jlfgr-1_0.jar
>  at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
> at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine._downloadCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
>  at
> com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown
> Source)
> at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown
> Source)
>  at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
> at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(Unknown Source)
>  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
>  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
> at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
>  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>
>
>
> On 27 February 2013 22:51, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> I've tested it with the inclusion of xalan (3 jars, ~5G) and it works.
>>
>> BTW all you need to do is have them on your classpath.
>>
>> If any of you want to give it a go:
>> http://www.crosswire.org/bibledesktop/nightly/bibledesktop.jnlp
>>
>> If you need to set an association for Java WebStart. (I had accidentally
>> set it to open in a text editor and had to reset the association.)
>>
>> In Him,
>> DM
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:16 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>>
>> It's not so much that the link is broken but that Oracle deleted the
>> thread.
>>
>> Here is the gist of what it said:
>> The OP complained that his bug report against Java was deleted regarding
>> regarding XLST no longer running under WebStart since 6 u23 and still in
>> Java 7 was deleted.
>>
>> He posted the small example that demonstrated the problem.
>>
>> I posted that I had the same problem and asked whether using xalan
>> directly solved the problem.
>>
>> My guess is that this fault or the underlying one can be used maliciously
>> to take over someone's computer.
>>
>> This has nothing to do with the class path lookup. Which I'll respond in
>> a separate post.
>>
>> In Him,
>> DM
>>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2013, at 2:48 PM, 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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