70854 - applet unable to create/load a windowed class

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Frank Burleigh]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.9) Gecko/20010302
BuildID:    2001030205

This applet begins when the page is loaded, and waits for the user to click the
"Play the ranking game" button.  When clicked, this button is supposed to open a
new awt window.  Instead, we get this exception:

Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: LawRank11/Rankings (Invalid start_pc/length in local
var table)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the URL.
2. Wait for the applet to start.
3. Click the button labelled "Play the Ranking Game".
4. View the java console.

Actual Results:  The quoted exception occurs rather than the new window opening.

This works in ns4 and in ie.  I always install the win32_installer.exe nightly.
 I am the author of the applet.  It was soooo long ago when you could still make
a smallish java applet.  It is written using v1 of Borland's jbuilder, and the
jbcl class library is all over the thing.

Sun's jre/plugin 1.3 is installed.  Also fails on ns 6/6.01.

Comment 1

[Brian Haskin (Janzert)]

I can confirm this with 
user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.9) Gecko/20010302
build: 2001030205

Comment 2

[Brian Haskin (Janzert)]

Oops, I might have confirmed this a little too quick. Was this compiled with a
pre 1.2 javac? If so could you try recompiling with a new version of javac,
older versions are known to output code that is incompatible with 1.3.0_01 in at
least some cases. See bug 62025 for more information.

Comment 3

[edburns]

Reporter: please re-open if this is something other than the bug 62025 
ClassFormatError problem.

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

SPAM: reassigning OJI bugs to new QA, pmac. (227 bugs)