Thank you for investigating this and looking for a fix! In the mean time, the
workaround of removing unneeded add-ons does work for me.
Boris
On Nov 3, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 04:17 PM, Boris Goldowsky wrote:
>> Any idea what could be causing the web-start version of XXE to fail with
>> Java 7 on Windows?
>>
>> xxe.jnlp downloads, and Java starts up, but then nothing happens. This
>> does not seem to be a problem with Java 6.
>>
>> If I try to launch manually with "javaws xxe.jnlp", I get an error like this:
>>
>> InvalidArgumentException[ Invalid arguments supplied: { }]
>> at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
>> at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
>> at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>>
>> We're seeing this with both XXE 5.2.1 and 5.4.
>>
>
> Here what happens:
>
> javaws.exe launches "javaw.exe com.sun.javaws.Main" passing it a number of
> arguments, including a copy of the .jnlp file. However, some of these
> arguments are taken from the .jnlp file.
>
> In the case of XXE, xxe.jnlp contains several of the following property
> elements:
>
> ---
> <property name="javaws.XXE.configurations"
> value="addon:config/dita/bookmap.xxe;addon:EXTRA/sample_customize_xxe/customize.xxe;addon:config/dita/ditaval.xxe;addon:config/docbook/docbook.xxe;addon:config/docbook5/docbook5.xxe;addon:config/dita/map.xxe;addon:EXTRA/mathml_config/standalone/mathml.xxe;addon:config/dita/topic.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml11.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml5.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml_loose.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml_strict.xxe"/>
>
> <property name="javaws.XXE.catalogs"
> ....
> ---
>
> The above properties are converted to -Dxxx=yyy arguments passed to
> "javaw.exe com.sun.javaws.Main". For example:
>
> ---
> -Djavaws.XXE.configurations=addon:config/dita/bookmap.xxe;addon:EXTRA/sample_customize_xxe/customize.xxe;addon:config/dita/ditaval.xxe;addon:config/docbook/docbook.xxe;addon:config/docbook5/docbook5.xxe;addon:config/dita/map.xxe;addon:EXTRA/mathml_config/standalone/mathml.xxe;addon:config/dita/topic.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml11.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml5.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml_loose.xxe;addon:config/xhtml/xhtml_strict.xxe
>
>
> -Djavaws.XXE.catalogs=...
> ---
>
> Note that doing this does not make sense. The application is simply expecting
> to have the system properties set before it starts. Implementing this does
> not require passing a bunch of -Dxxx=yyy arguments to javaw.exe. Suffice for
> com.sun.javaws.Main to parse the .jnlp file and to call System.setProperty().
>
> On Windows, the command-line cannot exceed 8191 characters (32767 with
> CreateProcess). This limit causes the cryptic error message you got.
>
> On Linux, there is not such limit (or is it 2097152?). Hence, no problem.
>
> This problem happens only with Java 7 on Windows. With Java 6 on Windows,
> javaws.exe launches "javaw.exe com.sun.javaws.Main" with hard to understand,
> somewhat inconsistent, arguments. However, the resulting command-line is much
> shorter than with Java 7, hence no problem with Java 6.
>
> With the applet there is no such problem on Windows and on Linux.
>
> I'm not sure that I'll file a bug report to the Java dev team. After all,
> it's a Windows limit. We'll try to find a strategy other than <property> in
> the .jnlp file to pass information to XXE when started using Java Web Start.
>
>
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