Apple released an update to JSE 6 for MacOS 10.6 sometime this week. I just
got it and things work again. So it was the 64 bit JVM, but it wasn't our
problem.
I guess somebody else traced the problem and reported it.
Jonathan
On May 23, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
> Jonathan, I really don't think it has to do with anything like that. Too
> subtle. The real question is this: What's so special about the console? We
> use the class loader all OVER the place -- if it were just that, we wouldn't
> be able to open PDB files, wouldn't do minimization, wouldn't have symmetry
> -- etc., etc.
>
> So something is special about the console. But what?
>
> Going back to the original issue, you wrote:
>
> ---------------------------
> AppletConsole initialized
> Interface.java Error creating instance for org.jmol.applet.AppletConsole:
> null
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^The line above has me confused, as I don't think anything is
> being created yet^^^^^^^^
> entering case 80 of viewer.getProperty
> ^^^^ After this message the java console stops.
>
> Sending a second using jmolScript ("console") starts the java console with a
> duplicate of the
>
> entering case 80 of viewer.getProperty
>
> Then continues normally creating the console.
>
> What do you make of that. Do we have a problem with the java object engine
> (or what ever it is called)?
> ---------------------------
>
> So let's say we can't get the console to start initially. What is different
> about the second call to getProperty? Can you track that down?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Gutow <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think on 10.6.3 macs the script interpreter is running afoul of the 64-bit
> hotspot VM when it starts the processes to create the console. Webkit
> browsers are defaulting to that rather than the 32 bit version. Any idea if
> we are using code that is not 64 bit compliant in the applet?
>
> I traced the problem as far as the java class that creates a new instance of
> an object (part of the java api). Maybe we are passing 32-bit info when it
> needs 64 bit. Can we have the applet call for 32 bit?
>
> Jonathan
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