#196970: Cannot launch NB JNLP app under JDK 6u24

Jesse Glick <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:27:26 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.reviewers
Organization Oracle Corp. / NetBeans
Message-ID <[email protected]>
http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196970
http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/4dd4566e22ed

Impact: serious problem (apparently prevents usage of NetBeans Platform over Java Web Start) affecting even NB 6.9 but only occurring with the latest JDK update and so 
not noticed before. The exact cause is unclear but seems to have something to do with an incidental change in initialization order of fundamental classes due to JNLP 
changes in u24.

Risk of fix: should be small; patch only affects behavior when run in JNLP mode, by disabling functionality which only makes sense in the regular module system anyway 
(delegating jar:file:.../modules/nb-module.jar!/... to the module class loader). Verified by QE.