[REGRESSION] 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1 broke javaws

[Marcus Carlson]

It seems the 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1 version broke javaws for our internal application because of some changed handling of filenames (or security?)

We use "[" and "]" in our filenames and this seems to have made the new version throw exceptions like this:

net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Launch Error: Could not launch JNLP file.
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:462)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:725)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getPermissions(JNLPClassLoader.java:538)
 at java.security.SecureClassLoader.getProtectionDomain(SecureClassLoader.java:210)
 at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:989)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClassExt(JNLPClassLoader.java:1011)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:926)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:440)
 ... 1 more
Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getPermissions(JNLPClassLoader.java:538)
 at java.security.SecureClassLoader.getProtectionDomain(SecureClassLoader.java:210)
 at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:989)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClassExt(JNLPClassLoader.java:1011)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:926)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:440)
 at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:725)

Changing the name of the files to a filename without "[" and "]" or downgrading to 1.8 solves the problem but it would be nice if this could be fixed in a future version.

[Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu)]

Also note that this works when using java from Sun/Oracle.