The instantiation of the JOptionPane appears to hang the VM, problem
demonstrated by TableExample2 in the Table demo area using JDK 1.1.4 on
Windows NT.

[aim 2/4/98]
Here is the stack trace that Phil sent me:

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Full thread dump:
    "Screen Updater" (TID:0xf84818, sys_thread_t:0x8d47e0,
Win32ID:0x10c, state:
CW) prio=4
        java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:315)
        sun.awt.ScreenUpdater.nextEntry(ScreenUpdater.java:78)
        sun.awt.ScreenUpdater.run(ScreenUpdater.java:98)
    "TimerQueue" (TID:0xf7c040, sys_thread_t:0x8bead0, Win32ID:0xec,
state:CW) p
rio=4
        com.sun.java.swing.TimerQueue.run(TimerQueue.java:242)
        java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:474)
    "AWT-Windows" (TID:0xf761a8, sys_thread_t:0x8b0380, Win32ID:0x91,
state:S) p
rio=5
        sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.run(WToolkit.java:106)
        java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:474)
    "AWT-EventQueue-0" (TID:0xf760f8, sys_thread_t:0x8b0290,
Win32ID:0x10d, stat
e:R) prio=5
        sun.awt.windows.WDialogPeer.hide(WDialogPeer.java:63)
        java.awt.Component.hide(Component.java:514)
        java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:500)
        java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:460)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JOptionPane$2.propertyChange(JOptionPane.java:673)
       
java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSuppor
t.java:103)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JComponent.firePropertyChange(JComponent.java:2642)
        com.sun.java.swing.JOptionPane.setValue(JOptionPane.java:1343)
       
com.sun.java.swing.basic.BasicOptionPaneUI.createdButtonFired(BasicOptio
nPaneUI.java:375)
       
com.sun.java.swing.basic.AbstractOptionPaneUI$2.actionPerformed(Abstract
OptionPaneUI.java:265)
       
com.sun.java.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.jav
a:804)
       
com.sun.java.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(Ab
stractButton.java:839)
       
com.sun.java.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonM
odel.java:338)
       
com.sun.java.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java
:230)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JRootPane$DefaultAction.actionPerformed(JRootPane.jav
a:321)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JComponent.processKeyBinding(JComponent.java:1297)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindings(JComponent.java:1324)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(JComponent.java:1226)
       
com.sun.java.swing.text.JTextComponent.processKeyEvent(JTextComponent.ja
va:895)
        java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:2138)
    "Finalizer thread" (TID:0xf700d0, sys_thread_t:0x8a2750,
Win32ID:0xe1, state
:CW) prio=2
    "main" (TID:0xf700a8, sys_thread_t:0x8a1340, Win32ID:0xef, state:CW)
prio=5
        sun.awt.windows.WDialogPeer.show(WDialogPeer.java:55)
        java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:220)
       
com.sun.java.swing.JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(JOptionPane.java:619)
        TableExample2.activateConnectionDialog(TableExample2.java:72)
        TableExample2.<init>(TableExample2.java:164)
        TableExample2.main(TableExample2.java:210)
Monitor Cache Dump:
    java.lang.Object@F73B58/FC0760: owner (0x7ffdc000, 1 entry)
Registered Monitor Dump:
    Thread queue lock: <unowned>
    Name and type hash table lock: <unowned>
    String intern lock: <unowned>
    JNI pinning lock: <unowned>
    JNI global reference lock: <unowned>
    BinClass lock: <unowned>
    Class loading lock: <unowned>
    Java stack lock: <unowned>
    Code rewrite lock: <unowned>
    Heap lock: <unowned>
    Has finalization queue lock: <unowned>
    Finalize me queue lock: <unowned>
        Waiters: 1
    Monitor registry: owner (0x7ffd8000, 1 entry)