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  1. Bug #238066
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 238066

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Tal Liron (emblem-parade) wrote :

Further investigation reveals that this is a bug with the HotSpot virtual machine included in all versions of Java 6 from Sun and OpenJDK. It has to do with how HotSpot handles recompilation of mutable classes (basically, any class that has "volatile" fields).

This bug seems to have been fixed with the HotSpot included in the upcoming Java 7. As far as I can tell, there are no plans currently in fixing this bug for Java 6.

So, the workaround for now seems to be running Java 7:

http://download.java.net/jdk7/binaries/