Public: Technology Reviews : Collected exceptions when launching Web Start

This page last changed on Oct 05, 2009 by scytacki.

Here is a list of all known exceptions that we know of that appear when launching web start, and explanations or solutions for them, if known.

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JNLPException[category: System Configuration : Exception: null : LaunchDesc: null ]
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:230)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:107)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

Probably caused by trying to write to a WS cache without the correct permissions.
See bug at http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do%3Bjsessionid=a1f59601a0823fffffffffd3756a2513c2970?bug_id=6310964

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Exception in thread "javawsApplicationMain" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:441)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:464)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.execProgram(Launcher.java:817)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeInstallers(Launcher.java:670)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Launcher.java:438)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Launcher.java:218)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:165)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

See NPE when launching installer extensions

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OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4

Command: Java Web Start
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Web Start.app/Contents/MacOS/Java Web Start
Parent: WindowServer 1513

Version: 11.7.0 (11.7.0)
Build Version: 30
Project Name: JavaDeploy15
Source Version: 930000

PID: 1690
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900031c8 strlen + 8
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907bf19c CFStringCreateWithCString + 36
2 com.apple.JavaVM 0x93743138 _NSJVMVersionIsSafe + 48
3 com.apple.JavaWebStart 0x0000337c 0x1000 + 9084
4 com.apple.JavaWebStart 0x0000565c 0x1000 + 18012
5 com.apple.JavaWebStart 0x00009bd4 0x1000 + 35796
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x9378ecc0 -[NSApplication _doOpenFile:ok:tryTemp:] + 388
...
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x9379190c _DPSNextEvent + 856
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x937913f8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x9378d93c -NSApplication run + 472
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x9387e458 NSApplicationMain + 452
20 com.apple.JavaWebStart 0x00005620 0x1000 + 17952
21 com.apple.JavaWebStart 0x00002448 0x1000 + 5192
22 com.apple.JavaWebStart 0x0000214c 0x1000 + 4428

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000900031c8 srr1: 0x000000000200f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44002442 xer: 0x0000000000000004 lr: 0x00000000907bf19c ctr: 0x00000000900031c0

Unsure. Scott thinks it may have to do with WS not finding the correct version of Java

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com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: (http://localhost:8080/jnlp/org/concord/external/tts/cmu_us_kal/cmu_us_kal.jar?version-id=1.1, 1.1)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:961)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1059)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1134)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1068)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:142)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(LaunchDownload.java:826)
...
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:212)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:107)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)

Unsure. Related to installing from USB. May be related to limited user space? USB could be failing to correctly extract all jars before launching Web Start?

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com.sun.deploy.net.JARSigningException: Could not verify signing in resource: (http://jnlp.concord.org/dev/org/telscenter/sail-otrunk/sail-otrunk.jar, 0.1.0-20090223.000359-918)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.CacheEntry.writeFileToDisk(CacheEntry.java:837)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.Cache.downloadResourceToCache(Cache.java:517)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:947)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1059)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1134)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1068)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:142)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(LaunchDownload.java:844)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(LaunchDownload.java:760)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Launcher.java:1185)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Launcher.java:558)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:175)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:95)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:305)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:213)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:108)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)

As above: Unsure. Related to installing from USB. May be related to limited user space? USB could be failing to correctly extract all jars before launching Web Start?

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This is the exception:
JNLParseException[ Could not parse launch file. Error at line 0.]
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(XMLFormat.java:51)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:52)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:64)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:143)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:253)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:213)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:108)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)

Unsure. Happened when installing from USB stick.