[ydl-gen] Java on PS3

[Stephen Harker]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:02:13PM +0000, Pat Wall wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:49:19 +0000
> Pat Wall <pjwall at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Firefox crashing may be related to the Sun's JRE
> plugin only. According to the IBM sdkandruntimeguide.lnx.htm:

I am on leave and not reading this list frequently (I can't get the
mail from my ADFA account when out of campus except through a webmail
interface).  On my iBook G4, running Firefox 3.6b5 there is no crash
using the java.com version test.  I do get an error message, which is
shown below:

>=========================================================
Java Plug-in 1.6.0
Using JRE version pxp3260sr6-20090925_01 (SR6) IBM J9 VM
User home directory = /home/sjh
----------------------------------------------------
c:   clear console window
f:   finalize objects on finalization queue
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
l:   dump classloader list
m:   print memory usage
o:   trigger logging
q:   hide console
r:   reload policy configuration
s:   dump system and deployment properties
t:   dump thread list
v:   dump thread stack
x:   clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
----------------------------------------------------


Reading certificates from 11 http://www.java.com/applet/TestVM2.jar | /home/sjh/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/50/75db0232-4f384094.idx
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
	at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1092)
	at testvm2.Main.init(Main.java:92)
	at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Plugin2Manager.java:1540)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736)
Exception: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at testvm2.Main.start(Main.java:150)
	at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Plugin2Manager.java:1603)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736)
Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
>======================================================

For what it may be worth the version tester at
http://www.javatester.org/version.html works without problems.

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