Tested build : jdk7-b121
showDocument when called from dragged out applet should open page inside the default browser window and showStatus should print out the given text inside the Java console. But that's not happening with promoted jdkb-121. With promoted bits it's failing silently but with nighlty bits following exceptions is getting thrown when these APIs are called:
java.io.IOException: Error 232 writing to named pipe, numWritten 0, WriteFile ts: 4494344968437, now ts: 4494344968458, dT 21
at sun.plugin2.ipc.windows.WindowsNamedPipe.write(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.transport.NamedPipeTransport$SerializerImpl.flush(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.transport.NamedPipeTransport$SerializerImpl.writeByte(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.AbstractSerializer.writeInt(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.AppletMessage.writeFields(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.ShowStatusMessage.writeFields(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.transport.SerializingTransport.write(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.message.Pipe.send(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.MessagePassingExecutionContext.showStatus(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet2.Plugin2Host.showStatus(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.uitoolkit.impl.awt.AWTAppletAdapter$AppletContextImpl.showStatus(Unknown Source)
at DragExample$1$2.actionPerformed(DragExample.java:176)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Steps to reproduce:
1) Try to load the following applet inside the IE browser (due to open swing applet issue do not try this scenario inside FF browser)
http://sqeweb.sfbay.sun.com/deployment2/jitu/latest_ws_test/6/deployment/src/plugin/DnD/DnD/html/DragExample.html
2) Drag applet out of browser and do a page reload.
3) Close the browser and try to click on "Reopen web page" and "Show Applet Status"
If you are able to see above mentioned behavior then bug is reproduced