FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion'
has value '1.4', but '1.5' is required.
Error: could not find java.dll
Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment.

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

EXTRA RELEVANT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION :
ANT 1.6.2

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Calling packager.exe with the following parameters works well if done frome CMD.exe:

packager.exe -clsid {83D226C9-8CC7-4FF8-B8B1-FDBAF361CBA6} -out dist VielstellenAnzeige.jar de.quipsy.client.ui.beans.vielstellenanzeige.VielstellenAnzeige

But if I do the same from within an ANT script, the VM crashes:

<exec executable="${jdk.home}/bin/packager.exe" newenvironment="true">
<env key="PATH" path="${vc98.path}" />
<env key="INCLUDE" path="${vc98.include}" />
<arg value="-clsid" />
<arg value="${bean.clsid}" />
<arg value="-out" />
<arg path="${packager.out}" />
<arg file="${module.name}" />
<arg value="${bean.name}" />
</exec>

The crash produces the following output:

    [exec] #
     [exec] # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
     [exec] #
     [exec] # EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x77c17e9f, pid=4072, tid=1340
     [exec] #
     [exec] # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-b05 mixed mode, sharing)
     [exec] # Problematic frame:
     [exec] # C [MSVCRT.dll+0x37e9f]
     [exec] #
     [exec] # An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid4072.log
     [exec] #
     [exec] # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
     [exec] # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
     [exec] #
     [exec] Die IDL-Datei konnte nicht erstellt werden.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
See ANT script in Description field. I can send you the VielstellenAnzeige.jar file so you can reproduce it. Just ask me to do so.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
As with every other JAR it should run fine.
ACTUAL -
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x77c17e9f, pid=4072, tid=1340
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-b05 mixed mode, sharing)
# Problematic frame:
# C [MSVCRT.dll+0x37e9f]
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread (0x02c92500): JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=1340]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000000

Registers:
EAX=0x00000000, EBX=0x2b36ba58, ECX=0x02f7fa5c, EDX=0x00000000
ESP=0x02f7f83c, EBP=0x02f7f83c, ESI=0x6d19fd78, EDI=0x02c92500
EIP=0x77c17e9f, EFLAGS=0x00010296

  Top of Stack: (sp=0x02f7f83c)
0x02f7f83c: 02f7fc88 6d154618 02f7fa5c 00000000
0x02f7f84c: 6d19cb30 73011734 00000474 00000042
0x02f7f85c: 00530025 00530059 00450054 0052004d
0x02f7f86c: 004f004f 00250054 0043005c 00720075
0x02f7f87c: 006f0073 00730072 0033005c 00670064
0x02f7f88c: 00720061 006f0072 0063002e 00720075
0x02f7f89c: 00090000 77e162a0 02f7f9fc 02f7fa84
0x02f7f8ac: 02f7f9e8 77da8771 00095960 00000002

Instructions: (pc=0x77c17e9f)
0x77c17e8f: cc cc cc cc cc 8b ff 55 8b ec 8b 4d 08 8b 55 0c
0x77c17e9f: 66 8b 02 66 89 01 41 41 42 42 66 85 c0 75 f1 8b


Stack: [0x02f40000,0x02f80000), sp=0x02f7f83c, free space=254k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [MSVCRT.dll+0x37e9f]
C [awt.dll+0xe4618]
j sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.init()Z+0
j sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.run()V+1
j java.lang.Thread.run()V+11
v ~StubRoutines::call_stub
V [jvm.dll+0x8295c]
V [jvm.dll+0xd752e]
V [jvm.dll+0x8282d]
V [jvm.dll+0x8258a]
V [jvm.dll+0x9d476]
V [jvm.dll+0x1042ae]
V [jvm.dll+0x10427c]
C [MSVCRT.dll+0x2a3b0]
C [kernel32.dll+0xb50b]

Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
j sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.init()Z+0
j sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.run()V+1
j java.lang.Thread.run()V+11
v ~StubRoutines::call_stub

--------------- P R O C E S S ---------------

Java Threads: ( => current thread )
=>0x02c92500 JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=1340]
  0x02c92010 JavaThread "AWT-Shutdown" [_thread_blocked, id=3276]
  0x00a6e050 JavaThread "Low Memory Detector" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3176]
  0x00a6cd58 JavaThread "CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2788]
  0x00a6bec0 JavaThread "Signal Dispatcher" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=640]
  0x00a670a0 JavaThread "Finalizer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=404]
  0x00a65bc0 JavaThread "Reference Handler" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3776]
  0x00035d00 JavaThread "main" [_thread_blocked, id=588]

Other Threads:
  0x00a63320 VMThread [id=2640]
  0x00a6f390 WatcherThread [id=3640]

VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)

VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None

Heap
 def new generation total 576K, used 182K [0x22a80000, 0x22b20000, 0x22f60000)
  eden space 512K, 23% used [0x22a80000, 0x22a9dba0, 0x22b00000)
  from space 64K, 100% used [0x22b10000, 0x22b20000, 0x22b20000)
  to space 64K, 0% used [0x22b00000, 0x22b00000, 0x22b10000)
 tenured generation total 1408K, used 135K [0x22f60000, 0x230c0000, 0x26a80000)
   the space 1408K, 9% used [0x22f60000, 0x22f81d08, 0x22f81e00, 0x230c0000)
 compacting perm gen total 8192K, used 122K [0x26a80000, 0x27280000, 0x2aa80000)
   the space 8192K, 1% used [0x26a80000, 0x26a9eab0, 0x26a9ec00, 0x27280000)
    ro space 8192K, 66% used [0x2aa80000, 0x2afdae88, 0x2afdb000, 0x2b280000)
    rw space 12288K, 46% used [0x2b280000, 0x2b818490, 0x2b818600, 0x2be80000)

Dynamic libraries:
0x00400000 - 0x0040c000 C:\PROGRA~1\Java\JDK15~3.0_0\bin\java.exe
0x7c910000 - 0x7c9c7000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
0x7c800000 - 0x7c906000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
0x77da0000 - 0x77e4a000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x77e50000 - 0x77ee1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x77be0000 - 0x77c38000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCRT.dll
0x6d6b0000 - 0x6d83c000 C:\PROGRA~1\Java\JDK15~3.0_0\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll
0x77d10000 - 0x77da0000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
0x77ef0000 - 0x77f36000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
0x76af0000 - 0x76b1e000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll
0x6d2f0000 - 0x6d2f8000 C:\PROGRA~1\Java\JDK15~3.0_0\jre\bin\hpi.dll
0x76bb0000 - 0x76bbb000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
0x77fc0000 - 0x77fd1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
0x6d680000 - 0x6d68c000 C:\PROGRA~1\Java\JDK15~3.0_0\jre\bin\verify.dll
0x6d370000 - 0x6d38d000 C:\PROGRA~1\Java\JDK15~3.0_0\jre\bin\java.dll
0x6d6a0000 - 0x6d6af000 C:\PROGRA~1\Java\JDK15~3.0_0\jre\bin\zip.dll
0x6d070000 - 0x6d1d7000 C:\Programme\Java\jdk1.5.0_05\jre\bin\awt.dll
0x72f70000 - 0x72f96000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV
0x76330000 - 0x7634d000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.dll
0x774b0000 - 0x775ec000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
0x5b0f0000 - 0x5b128000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
0x736d0000 - 0x73719000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ddraw.dll
0x73b30000 - 0x73b36000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\DCIMAN32.dll
0x738b0000 - 0x73980000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\D3DIM700.DLL
0x746a0000 - 0x746eb000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll

VM Arguments:
java_command: sun.plugin.com.Packager de.quipsy.client.ui.beans.vielstellenanzeige.VielstellenAnzeige C:\WINDOWS\ {83D226C9-8CC7-4FF8-B8B1-FDBAF361CBA6} {83D226CA-8CC7-4FF8-B8B1-FDBAF361CBA6} {83D226CB-8CC7-4FF8-B8B1-FDBAF361CBA6} {83D226CC-8CC7-4FF8-B8B1-FDBAF361CBA6}

Environment Variables:
PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\Common\MSDev98\Bin



--------------- S Y S T E M ---------------

OS: Windows XP Build 2600 Service Pack 2

CPU:total 2 family 15, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, ht

Memory: 4k page, physical 523244k(117636k free), swap 1278080k(793068k free)

vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-b05) for windows-x86, built on Aug 26 2005 15:36:02 by "java_re" with MS VC++ 6.0



ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
see description / actual result

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced often.

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see description
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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Do not use packager.exe from within an ANT script but use CMD.EXE only.