URL: http://javaweb.eng/engineering/jdk-performance/
 
My applet comes up fine, but there is an exception in the console at the
very start (before it begins my applet):

Exception occurred during event dispatching:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javaws.DownloadWindow$7.run(DownloadWindow.java:388)
at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities.processRunnableEvent(Unknown Source)
       at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities.access$0(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$RunnableTarget.processEvent(Unknown
Source)

at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)