It is noticed on x86 Windows Vista, Win 7, launching JavaFX 8 SwingInterop.jar resulted with Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
and the app failed to load. The issue appears since jre8-b73

*** Steps to reproduce:
0) Insdtall jre 8-b73
1) Get the JavaFX sample from:
http://jre.us.oracle.com/java/re/javafx/8.0.0/promoted/ea/b73/bundles/windows-i586/javafx_samples-8_0_0-ea-windows-i586.zip

2) Launch the SwingInterop sample app from step#1 as:

C:\\javafx-samples-8.0.0-ea>java -jar SwingInterop.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImp
l.java:235)
        ... 5 more

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If the app failed to load with the above exception, the issue is reproducible