Reported by John Smith (john_smith@symantec.com)

I have a jar which was built with the jdk7 packaging tools with the csstobin option set to true. The packager placed a .bss binary css file in the resultant package and no .css file. When I attempt to run the jar on Java8b92 the application encounters a NullPointerException and is unable to start.

The binary package for the app may be downloaded from:
http://code.google.com/p/willow-browser/downloads/detail?name=Willow-0.1-prerelease.jar

The css used in the app is:
http://code.google.com/p/willow-browser/source/browse/src/main/resources/org/jewelsea/willow/willow.css

Stack Trace attached . . . apologies for the length.

Johns-MacBook-Air:Downloads lilyshard$ java -jar Willow-0.1-prerelease.jar
Exception in Application start method
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.css.ParsedValueImpl.readBinary(ParsedValueImpl.java:650)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Declaration.readBinary(Declaration.java:185)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Rule.readBinary(Rule.java:207)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Stylesheet.readBinary(Stylesheet.java:198)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Stylesheet.loadBinary(Stylesheet.java:228)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.loadStylesheetUnPrivileged(StyleManager.java:886)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.loadStylesheet(StyleManager.java:720)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.gatherSceneStylesheets(StyleManager.java:1268)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.findMatchingStyles(StyleManager.java:1317)
at javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper.createStyleHelper(CssStyleHelper.java:118)
at javafx.scene.Node.impl_processCSS(Node.java:8587)
at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Parent.java:1179)
at javafx.scene.Node.processCSS(Node.java:8515)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doCSSPass(Scene.java:540)
at javafx.scene.Scene.access$3600(Scene.java:188)
at javafx.scene.Scene$ScenePulseListener.pulse(Scene.java:2385)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.firePulse(Toolkit.java:358)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:601)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.pulse(QuantumToolkit.java:581)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit$17.run(QuantumToolkit.java:446)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:351)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:304)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:778)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:867)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.access$000(LauncherImpl.java:56)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$1.run(LauncherImpl.java:158)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.javafx.css.ParsedValueImpl.readBinary(ParsedValueImpl.java:650)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Declaration.readBinary(Declaration.java:185)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Rule.readBinary(Rule.java:207)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Stylesheet.readBinary(Stylesheet.java:198)
at com.sun.javafx.css.Stylesheet.loadBinary(Stylesheet.java:228)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.loadStylesheetUnPrivileged(StyleManager.java:886)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.loadStylesheet(StyleManager.java:720)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.gatherSceneStylesheets(StyleManager.java:1268)
at com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager.findMatchingStyles(StyleManager.java:1317)
at javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper.createStyleHelper(CssStyleHelper.java:118)
at javafx.scene.Node.impl_processCSS(Node.java:8587)
at javafx.scene.Parent.impl_processCSS(Parent.java:1179)
at javafx.scene.Node.processCSS(Node.java:8515)
at javafx.scene.Scene.doCSSPass(Scene.java:540)
at javafx.scene.Scene.preferredSize(Scene.java:1578)
at javafx.scene.Scene.impl_preferredSize(Scene.java:1645)
at javafx.stage.Window$9.invalidated(Window.java:729)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.markInvalid(BooleanPropertyBase.java:107)
at javafx.beans.property.BooleanPropertyBase.set(BooleanPropertyBase.java:141)
at javafx.stage.Window.setShowing(Window.java:795)
at javafx.stage.Window.show(Window.java:810)
at javafx.stage.Stage.show(Stage.java:242)
at org.jewelsea.willow.Willow.start(Willow.java:84)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$5.run(LauncherImpl.java:810)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$6.run(PlatformImpl.java:260)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$5$1.run(PlatformImpl.java:226)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$5$1.run(PlatformImpl.java:223)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$5.run(PlatformImpl.java:223)
at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
Exception running application org.jewelsea.willow.Willow
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Johns-MacBook-Air:Downloads lilyshard$ java -Dbinary.css=false -jar Willow-0.1-prerelease.jar
Jun 08, 2013 2:40:19 AM com.sun.javafx.css.StyleManager loadStylesheetUnPrivileged
WARNING: Resource "org/jewelsea/willow/willow.css" not found.
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Johns-MacBook-Air:Downloads lilyshard$ java -version
java version "1.8.0-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b92)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b34, mixed mode)
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Note that although the app used to work fine with jdk7, it also no longer works correctly with jdk7u21, but the behaviour is different from jdk8b92. With jdk7 the app still runs (with no css loaded) and outputs the message "Cannot add stylesheet. 256"

This particular 256 error seems related to the 512 error mentioned in mailing list threads.
http://markmail.org/message/l4hmpppo2dy2t54g#query:+page:1+mid:sz4o2xj5bhhovpn6+state:results

Johns-MacBook-Air:Downloads lilyshard$ java -jar Willow-0.1-prerelease.jar
Cannot add stylesheet. 256
CoreAnimation: warning, deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction; set CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS=1 in environment to log backtraces.
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(I think the CoreAnimation warning is unrelated to the css errors).