FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version " 1.7.0_25 "
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

java version " 1.6.0_51 "
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_51-b11-457-11M4509)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.51-b01-457, mixed mode)

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Apple Mac OS X 10.8.4 12.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

EXTRA RELEVANT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION :
This occurs with the official Oracle 1.7 JVM as well as the corresponding Apple Java VM both with and without the hotfix detailed in http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
When running an application which requires SWT and is multithreaded there is a good chance that application will fail to start and hang upon loading the AWT jni libraries (actually in our own apps it's 100%, but it depends on what exactly the program uses of the java se api). The issue is that for some reason the security fixes in 1.7.0_25 seem to trigger AWT initialisation from previously perfectly safe and to the user transparent locations such as creating a java.util.logger or registring an MBean. Everywhere the AppContext is touched this now happens. Unfortunately this isn't allowed on Mac OS X due to how the event system works. This is different bug than what caused Apple to roll out a hotfix for their 1.6.0_51 release because most swing apps didn't work anymore.

This only happens when -XstartOnFirstThread is given as JVM parameter but that one is absolutely necessary for all SWT applications.





STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Run the included test code as a normal java application, no special security settings, no webstart, no applet, just normal.

Without JVM arguments : runs fine as you would expect
With -XstartOnFirstThread : hangs
With -XstartOnFirstThread and -Djava.awt.headless=true : runs fine


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Applications start up normally
ACTUAL -
All those applications just hang. They hang on loading the JNI AWT libs (just like the behavior was before -XstartOnFirstThread was introduced years ago). The hang can be triggered by places not using anything from AWT at all. It's very fishy that util.logging, jmx and others which are clearly tool locations trigger code in AWT.

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
None, complete hang Stack traces of applications also exhibiting this. These threads are marked runnable but will never leave the method they are in. One shows an app locking up in JMX, the other one from an app locking up in ImageIO.

 " Thread-4 " daemon prio=5 tid=7febb49ae800 nid=0x10f2fb000 runnable [10f2f6000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1827)
- locked <7dc02aec0> (a java.util.Vector)
- locked <7dc02aee0> (a java.util.Vector)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1724)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
- locked <7dc02cb28> (a java.lang.Runtime)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1045)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1605)
at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1627)
at sun.awt.AppContext$2.run(AppContext.java:240)
at sun.awt.AppContext$2.run(AppContext.java:226)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.AppContext.initMainAppContext(AppContext.java:226)
at sun.awt.AppContext.access$200(AppContext.java:112)
at sun.awt.AppContext$3.run(AppContext.java:306)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.AppContext.getAppContext(AppContext.java:287)
at com.sun.jmx.trace.Trace.out(Trace.java:180)
- locked <7f8eea490> (a java.lang.Class for com.sun.jmx.trace.Trace)
at com.sun.jmx.trace.Trace.isSelected(Trace.java:88)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.isTraceOn(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1830)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerDynamicMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:929)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerObject(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:916)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:312)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer$2.run(JmxMBeanServer.java:1195)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.initialize(JmxMBeanServer.java:1193)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.<init>(JmxMBeanServer.java:225)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.<init>(JmxMBeanServer.java:170)
at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.newMBeanServer(JmxMBeanServer.java:1401)
at javax.management.MBeanServerBuilder.newMBeanServer(MBeanServerBuilder.java:93)
at javax.management.MBeanServerFactory.newMBeanServer(MBeanServerFactory.java:311)
- locked <7d824f618> (a javax.management.MBeanServerBuilder)
at javax.management.MBeanServerFactory.createMBeanServer(MBeanServerFactory.java:214)
at javax.management.MBeanServerFactory.createMBeanServer(MBeanServerFactory.java:175)
at sun.management.ManagementFactory.createPlatformMBeanServer(ManagementFactory.java:302)
at java.lang.management.ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer(ManagementFactory.java:504)
- locked <7f8e00140> (a java.lang.Class for java.lang.management.ManagementFactory)
at id.core.version.provider.ProductVersionProvider.<init>(ProductVersionProvider.java:68)
at id.core.version.provider.ProductVersionProvider.getInstance(ProductVersionProvider.java:37)
- locked <7f8dd00a8> (a java.lang.Class for id.core.version.provider.ProductVersionProvider)
at id.core.version.VersionInfo.getProductID(VersionInfo.java:98)
at com.id.core.platform.util.application.ProductDirectories.calculateCurrentUserProgramDir(ProductDirectories.java:31)
at com.id.core.platform.util.application.ProductDirectories.<clinit>(ProductDirectories.java:22)
at com.id.core.platform.repository.BundleRepository.parsePluginFile(BundleRepository.java:235)
at com.id.core.platform.repository.BundleRepository.<init>(BundleRepository.java:101)
at com.id.core.platform.Platform.bootstrap(Platform.java:178)
- locked <7d81cb4c8> (a java.lang.Object)
- locked <7d81cb4a8> (a com.id.core.platform.Platform)
at com.id.core.platform.activator.Activator$1.run(Activator.java:77)
- locked <7d81aca68> (a java.lang.Object)


 " Thread-2 " prio=5 tid=0x00007f9973093800 nid=0x7e03 runnable [0x0000000137b2f000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1957)
- locked <0x0000000128bc39a8> (a java.util.Vector)
- locked <0x0000000128bc3610> (a java.util.Vector)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1882)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1843)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:795)
- locked <0x0000000110a457a8> (a java.lang.Runtime)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1061)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1957)
- locked <0x0000000128bc39a8> (a java.util.Vector)
- locked <0x0000000128bc3610> (a java.util.Vector)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1882)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1864)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:849)
- locked <0x0000000110a457a8> (a java.lang.Runtime)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1087)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:67)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:47)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1646)
at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1668)
at sun.awt.AppContext$2.run(AppContext.java:271)
at sun.awt.AppContext$2.run(AppContext.java:260)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.AppContext.initMainAppContext(AppContext.java:260)
at sun.awt.AppContext.access$200(AppContext.java:133)
at sun.awt.AppContext$3.run(AppContext.java:316)
at sun.awt.AppContext$3.run(AppContext.java:298)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.AppContext.getAppContext(AppContext.java:297)
at javax.imageio.spi.IIORegistry.getDefaultInstance(IIORegistry.java:154)
at com.id.external.javax.media.jai.Services.register(Services.java:20)
at com.id.external.javax.media.jai.activator.Activator.start(Activator.java:26)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:711)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:702)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:683)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:381)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.start(AbstractBundle.java:299)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.start(AbstractBundle.java:291)
at com.id.core.platform.repository.BundleRepository.startBundle(BundleRepository.java:486)
at com.id.core.platform.repository.BundleRepository.handleResolvedBundle(BundleRepository.java:389)
at com.id.core.platform.repository.BundleRepository.scanBundles(BundleRepository.java:269)
at com.id.core.platform.repository.BundleRepository.start(BundleRepository.java:118)
- locked <0x00000001259d7d20> (a java.lang.Object)
at com.id.core.platform.Platform.bootstrap(Platform.java:184)
- locked <0x00000001259d4000> (a java.lang.Object)
- locked <0x00000001259d3fe0> (a com.id.core.platform.Platform)
at com.id.core.platform.activator.Activator$1.run(Activator.java:77)
- locked <0x00000001259ce758> (a java.lang.Object)

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import javax.imageio.spi.IIORegistry;
import javax.management.MBeanServer;

/**
 * @author evanherc
 */
public class AppContextJVMBug {

public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
System.out.println( " Launching " );

final Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
utilLoggingHang();
jmxHang();
imageioHang();
} catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace();
}
}
});

t.start();
t.join();
System.out.println( " Finished " );
} catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace();
}
}

private static void utilLoggingHang() {
final Logger l = Logger.getLogger( " MyApp " );
System.out.println( " Done obtaining a logger " + l);
}

private static void jmxHang() {
final MBeanServer mb = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();
System.out.println( " Done getting the platform mbean server " + mb);
}

private static void imageioHang() {
final IIORegistry registry = IIORegistry.getDefaultInstance();
System.out.println( " Done retrieving image registry " + registry);
}
}

---------- END SOURCE ----------