There are also some JAR Manifest changes in 7u45, as detailed at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u45-relnotes-2016950.html#newft
I don't know if that can explain the complete failure to load and the InvocationTargetException, or is just an additional issue. -----Original Message----- From: Mickey Segal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 6:37 AM We were able to get past the problem of getCodeBase() returning null by hard-coding the URL. This worked in 7 update 25 and 7 update 40. We were able to debug that problem because the applet would launch and we could use println statements find that the problem was getCodeBase() returning null. But the problem with 7 update 45 is that we don't even get to the stage of anything appearing in the Java Console; even from a println at the beginning of the code. So we don't have a set of stacked Exceptions because the only clue that InvocationTargetException is involved is an error dialog that come up, but when one clicks the option for details, the Java Console is displayed, but no messages appear.
