1. Install JRE8u11 build 08
2. Install jre5_071
3. Prepare deployment rule set file and configure applet to require JRE1.5_071
4. Try to launch applet.

JRE is relaunched but applet initialization fails due to uncaught exception

Thread-11" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.String.isEmpty()


ava Plug-in 11.11.2.08
Using JRE version 1.5.0_71-b08 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = C:\Users\datitov.ORADEV
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c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
g: garbage collect
h: display this help message
l: dump classloader list
m: print memory usage
o: trigger logging
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system and deployment properties
t: dump thread list
v: dump thread stack
x: clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
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cache: Initialize resource manager: com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl@192d342
security: Class NTLMAuthenticationCallback is not available
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/awt/DesktopBrowse
at sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2Environment.initialize(Applet2Environment.java:489)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.initializeApplet2Environment(PluginMain.java:772)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.handleMessageSetJVMID(PluginMain.java:740)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.handleMessage(PluginMain.java:506)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.mainLoop(PluginMain.java:484)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.run(PluginMain.java:369)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.main(PluginMain.java:2340)
Exception in thread "Thread-11" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.String.isEmpty()Z
at com.sun.deploy.util.ArgumentParsingUtil.decodeArgumentList(ArgumentParsingUtil.java:294)
at com.sun.deploy.util.Property.getJnlpProperties(Property.java:153)
at com.sun.deploy.util.Property.collectsJnlpProperties(Property.java:188)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.collectJnlpProperties(Plugin2Manager.java:980)
at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager.initialize(Plugin2Manager.java:319)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.initManager(PluginMain.java:1101)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain.access$200(PluginMain.java:58)
at sun.plugin2.main.client.PluginMain$2.run(PluginMain.java:998)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)