I've created a patch that fixes this issue. Tested against a site which would previously fail due to no CODE attribute:
http://www.jeacle.ie/mortgage/ca/ GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x6229b0: plugin_in_pipe_callback return PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status starting applet... PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-15261-5 PIPE: appletviewer read: width 625 PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-15261-5 PIPE: appletviewer read: height 875 Jar string: mortgage-en.jar jars length: 1 initializing JNLPRuntime... PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status Applet loaded. Timothy's reported applets on jigzone,com still fail since they don't have a WIDTH or HEIGHT attribute specified. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x6229b0: GCJ_SetWindow return Warning: <embed> tag requires width attribute. The Bus route planning applets reported by HappySpaceInvader still fail, but not because of the tag. They fail due to Javascript support exceptions: ** ACIS Live v2.1 - jBusMapEngine v4.3 ** ** Author: Robert Tinsley ** Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: netscape/javascript/JSObject. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: netscape/javascript/JSObject at BusMap.init(BusMap.java:76) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:436) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: netscape.javascript.JSObject at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClassExt(JNLPClassLoader.java:700) at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:657) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:336) ... 3 more PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status Start: applet not initialized. -- applet fails to load with nullpointerexception https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199732 You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-6 in ubuntu. Status in “icedtea-gcjwebplugin” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Fedora: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: icedtea-java7-plugin I am trying to access an applet from http://www.jigzone.com. The applet fails to load with error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.applet.PluginMain.start(PluginMain.java:211) at sun.applet.PluginMain.main(PluginMain.java:73) I am running Hardy Alpha 6 (firefox3, icedtea-java7). The applet works just fine on my Gutsy box (firefox2, sun6). I have attached the complete console output ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Mar 7 23:13:26 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 Package: firefox 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

