Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hi people,

I seem to have encountered a problem using Web Start after updrading my JRE from 1.5.0_15 to 1.5.0_16.

I have written a simple test program as shown below. This simply tries to load a java-help HelpSet file.

import java.net.URL;

import javax.help.HelpSet;
import javax.help.HelpSetException;

public class HelpTest {

    public HelpTest() {
        final ClassLoader cl = HelpTest.this.getClass().getClassLoader();
        System.out.println("classloader = " + cl);
        final URL url = HelpSet.findHelpSet(cl, "jhelpset.hs");
        System.out.println("url = " + url);
        try {
            final HelpSet hs = new HelpSet(cl, url);
            System.out.println("helpset = " + hs);
        } catch (final HelpSetException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new HelpTest();
    }
}

The following is the JNLP file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- JNLP File for Help Test -->
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://localhost:8080/helptest/" href="helptest.jnlp">
   <information>
      <title>Help Test Demo</title>
      <vendor>My Own Vendor</vendor>
      <description>Help Test</description>
      <homepage href="http://www.google.co.uk"/>
      <description kind="short">Test loading of help</description>
      <offline-allowed/>
   </information>
   <security>
       <all-permissions/>
   </security>
   <resources>     
   	<jar href="helptest.jar"/>   
   	<jar href="helpfiles.jar"/>   
	<extension href="http://localhost:8080/helptest/javahelp.jnlp" name="javahelp"/>
	<j2se version="1.5+" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se"/>
   </resources>
   <application-desc main-class="com.snh.HelpApp.HelpTest"/>
</jnlp>

This is my JNLP file for the java-help

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://localhost:8080/helptest/" href="javahelp.jnlp">
 <information>
   <title>JavaHelp</title>
   <vendor>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</vendor>
 </information>
 <security>
     <all-permissions/>
 </security>
 <resources>
   <jar href="javahelp-2_0_05.jar"/>
 </resources>
 <component-desc/>
</jnlp>

The follwing jars, which are all signed, are contained in my WAR file.

helptest.jar (This just contains the class show above plus the files in the META-INF directory)
helpfiles.jar (This just contains 3 files jhelpset.hs, jhelpmap.jhm, jhelptoc.xml plus the files in the META-INF directory)
javahelp-2_0_05.jar (Java Help, This was already signed by SUN)

If the application is run through JRE 1.5.0._15 I get the following output on the Java Console:-

Java Web Start 1.5.0_15
Using JRE version 1.5.0_15 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = I:\Documents and Settings
----------------------------------------------------
c:   clear console window
f:   finalize objects on finalization queue
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
m:   print memory usage
o:   trigger logging
p:   reload proxy configuration
q:   hide console
r:   reload policy configuration
s:   dump system and deployment properties
t:   dump thread list
0-5: set trace level to <n>
----------------------------------------------------
classloader = com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader@29428e
url = jar:file:I:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Application%20Data/Sun/Java/Deployment/cache/javaws/http/Dlocalhost/P8080/DMhelptest/java-XMhelpfiles.jar43748tmp!/jhelpset.hs
helpset = Help Test User Guide

If I then install JRE 1.5.0_16 and run the application I get the following error message on the Java Console:-

Java Web Start 1.5.0_16
Using JRE version 1.5.0_16 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = I:\Documents and Settings
----------------------------------------------------
c:   clear console window
f:   finalize objects on finalization queue
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
m:   print memory usage
o:   trigger logging
p:   reload proxy configuration
q:   hide console
r:   reload policy configuration
s:   dump system and deployment properties
t:   dump thread list
0-5: set trace level to <n>
----------------------------------------------------
classloader = com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader@29428e
url = jar:jhelpset.hs
javax.help.HelpSetException: Could not parse
Malformed URL: jhelpmap.jhm.
Parsing failed for jar:jhelpset.hs
	at javax.help.HelpSet.<init>(HelpSet.java:154)
	at com.snh.HelpApp.HelpTest.<init>(HelpTest.java:24)
	at com.snh.HelpApp.HelpTest.main(HelpTest.java:36)
	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 com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I have noticed that somehow the URL in 1.5.0_15 was picking up the directory that Web Start uses
for its cache which then loads the HelpSet correctly.
However the URL that 1.5.0_16 picks up seems to be incomplete/incorrect.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this error message is suddenly being produced?

Any light shed on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve.

Edited by: scoobysteve on Jul 26, 2008 12:57 PM