On 03/07/2013 22:33, Sam Reid wrote:
Hi there,
My name is Sam Reid, I am a software engineer at PhET Interactive
Simulations (http://phet.colorado.edu/) at the University of Colorado
Boulder. We publish free, open source educational simulations, most
of which are developed for the Java runtime and delivered with Java
Web Start. We have received many reports from our users that after
updating to Java 1.7.0_25, our simulations fail to launch. The
problem is the one identified in this bug report:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017174 "8017174 :
NPE when using Logger.getAnonymousLogger or
LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger"
The bug report says the problem is fixed for latest JDK 8 but I am
hoping that a fix will be posted in the Java 1.7.0_xx line as well,
and hopefully in time for school to start in August. I am unable to
make comments in the bug report, even when I am logged in. Is there a
way I can comment in that bug report? Do you think this will get
fixed for the 1.7.0_xx line? If so, when?
I don't think bugs.sun.com supports comments any more but there is open
bug database coming.
As regards 8017174 then the fix was pushed to jdk8 a few days ago. TBD
on jdk7u but since this one is a regression (when reloading applets at
least) then it does need to be considered. I'm not directly involved in
this one but just a general comment that the logging code has a habit of
biting back. I think it needs to at least get through some testing in
jdk8 to see if any other issues emerge.
-Alan.
