report from tiger CAP customer: (problem do not exist in 1.4.2)

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Java Web Start Feedback -
> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:11:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keith Lea <###@###.###>
> Reply-To: ###@###.###
> To: ###@###.###
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>
>E-mail Address: ###@###.###
>General: My Java Web Start program won't launch on my computer or two other computers I've tried. No error dialog appears, the application just doesn't start. The application does run from a command line.
>Platform: WinXP-Home-Edition WinXP-Professional-Edition
>Browser: IE6 Mozilla
>JRE version: Tiger JDK 1.5 CAP build 48
>JNLP location: http://kano.net/partypad/run/broken/partypad.jnlp
>Error messages: No, there is no error dialog or anything. The splash screen comes up saying "Party Pad / Party Pad Inc." but nothing happens after that, no error message.
>Instructions to reproduce the problem: Just open that JNLP file with Tiger CAP build b48. If you get something more than a hung JWS application start dialog, please let me know, but that's what happens to me on all 3 computers.
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The real problem is because we throw NPE on a jar with no real entries:

> network: Found in cache: DisckCacheEntry[R;http://kano.net/partypad/run/broken/p
> artypad.jar;null;1083628621000;C:\Documents and Settings\ngthomas\Application Da
> ta\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javaws\http\Dkano.net\P80\DMpartypad\DMrun\DMbroken
> \RMpartypad.jar;null]
> Exception in thread "javawsApplicationMain" java.lang.NullPointerException
> at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.checkSignedResourcesHelper(LaunchDownlo
> ad.java:1015)
> at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.checkSignedResources(LaunchDownload.jav
> a:933)
> at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Launcher.java:766)
> at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Launcher.java:468)
> at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Launcher.java:218)
> at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:165)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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