Hi jdk7dev, I'm a Netbeans User and also member of Netcat. I'm not fluent at all the openjdk process. I would have preferably filed an issue but in the access is restricted, that why I try to get informations that may help answering an issue in Netbeans [1] by using the mailing list. I browse the < new > JIRA based openjdk bug with no luck.
At the time you develop Netbeans RCP application you can add qa-testing. (Functionnal testing) that spy the logs. The default settings fail if a warning is detected on the outpout. On a fresh windows installation + jdk 7u45 there is a warning that appears: [java.util.prefs] THREAD: main MSG: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5. This output was never shown before. Browsing web it seems that the windows hive LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs is no longer created during install. Using regedit and manually creating Prefs make the Warning deseapears. I manually remove the key and try to uninstall / install the previous jdk JDK u17 seems to be the last jdk to create this Prefs key during installation phase. Is it possible to have a rationale on this issue. If removal during install is intended ? or why ? Best Regards Eric [1]https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234894
