arthur.frechette@East 1998-07-28

System Under Test: Solaris 2.6
JDK Under Test: JDK1.2fcs-B

The following code highlights the problem:

ActivationSystem system = null;
try {
  system = ActivationGroup.getSystem();
}
catch (ActivationException e) {
}
if (system != null)
    system.shutdown();

try {
    Thread.sleep(5000);
}
catch (Exception e) {}
system = null;
try {
   system = ActivationGroup.getSystem();
   System.err.println("FAILED: expected exception");
   if (system != null)
System.err.println("FAILED: system is not null");
}
catch (ActivationException e) {
}

After shutting down the activation system and doing a subsequent
ActivationGroup.getSystem() no exception is thrown and the activation
system returned is not null. It appears that the value is cached and
should be removed from the cache on a shutdown().