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Resolved Issues

This chapter lists high-visibility bugs that have been addressed in this release. It is not a complete listing of all of the bugs addressed. If you still have issues with any of these bugs, please file a new bug at http://bugreport.apple.com/ under the Java (new bugs) component, version X. Refer to the bug number indicated below in your new bug if you believe it is the same issue.

In this section:

Java Applets
Java Aqua Look and Feel
Java AWT
Java Events
Java Graphics
Java Libraries
Java Printing
Java Security
Java Swing
Java SWT Support
Java Text
Java Virtual Machine
Java Web Start
Other Resolved Issues

Java Applets

Radar #4398074

Java Preferences didn't save applet parameters

Description:

If the deployment.properties file didn't exist in ~/Library/Caches/Java/ prior to running Java Preferences, virtual machine parameters were not be saved until Java Preferences.app was used again.

Resolution:

The deployment.properties file is now properly created and saved.

Radar #4401040

All certificates treated as self-signed

Description:

The Java plug-in treated all certificates used with JAR files or HTTPS connections as self-signed certificates. This left the incorrect impression that the certificate was not issued by a trusted authority, advising the user to take additional caution.

Resolution:

The Java plug-in now correctly reads the system-wide trusted X.509 anchor certificates and displays certificates correctly.

Java Aqua Look and Feel

Radar #4400344

JFileChooser deadlock

Description:

Showing a JFileChooser from a non-event dispatch thread caused a deadlock.

Resolution:

When a JFileChooser is called from a non-event dispatch thread, the call is redirected to the proper thread.

Java AWT

Radar #4125987

Custom cursors causing exceptions

Description:

Attempting to use a custom cursor created using Toolkit.createCustomCursor with a NULL name triggered an exception.

Resolution:

Cursors with a NULL name work as expected.

Radar #4322814

AWT Choice control

Description:

When focus was on an AWT Choice control, pressing the space bar or down arrow key didn't show its popup menu.

Resolution:

An AWT Choice control now displays its popup menu when the space bar or down arrow key is pressed.

Radar #4323039

Focus between AWT and Swing controls

Description:

Tabbing between AWT and Swing controls in the same window caused focus to stick on some controls.

Resolution:

Focus shifts properly between peer AWT and Swing elements.

Radar #4326611

Applet dialog appearance

Description:

Dialogs appeared in Apple's textured style, regardless of the apple.awt.UseBrushMetal setting.

Resolution:

By default, dialogs appear using the Aqua Look and Feel.

Radar #4367914

Help menu issues

Description:

Modifying a Help menu with setHelpMenu would hide another menu from the Menu Bar.

Resolution:

Modifying help menus no longer causes other menus to disappear.

Java Events

Radar #4005998

Key binding conflicts

Description:

Key bindings for items in the Services menu weren't passed to Java applications after an item from the Application menu was chosen.

Resolution:

Key bindings for disabled items in the Services menu are always passed to Java applications. Bindings for enabled items may still conflict.

Java Graphics

Radar #4314252

Sun 2D Renderer support

Description:

Previous releases of Java on Mac OS X only offered 2D rendering support using Apple's Quartz technology.

Resolution:

J2SE 5.0 Release 4 features support for Sun's 2D renderer. By default, the Quartz renderer is used for 2D rendering. You can use the Sun 2D renderer by setting the apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz runtime option to false.

Radar #4323478

Graphics corruption during live resize

Description:

Overriding the update() method and not calling super.update() in a heavyweight component may have resulted in a blank window during a live resize.

Resolution:

All components redraw correctly during a live resize.

Radar #4347718

Window disposal crash

Description:

Disposing a window while it's being drawn to caused a crash.

Resolution:

An application no longer crashes if it disposes a window while it's being drawn to.

Java Libraries

Radar #4399262

Applications that depend on org.apache packages

Description:

Sun moved the org.apache package in J2SE 5.0. Various applications depend on the org.apache package and therefore break when run under J2SE 5.0.

Resolution:

J2SE 5.0 Release 4 includes the org.apache package to provide increased backward compatibility. The compatibility classes are appended to the end of the CLASSPATH so newer versions of the org.apache XML classes can be used.

Radar #4404074

Runtime.exec and accented characters

Description:

If the name of the executable or its path had accented characters, Runtime.exec failed to execute it.

Resolution:

Runtime.exec handles paths and executable names that contain accented characters.

Java Printing

Radar #2937917

Page orientation not selectable

Description:

There was no way to select the page orientation when using Toolkit.defaultToolkit().getPrintJob().

Resolution:

The Page Setup dialog appears after selecting Print from the Print dialog.

Radar #4367998

Printing attributes ignored

Description:

When using JTable.print() or the javax.print dialog, set job attributes were not passed to PrinterJob.

Resolution:

Job attributes (like copies and orientation) are now properly set.

Radar #4401516

Wrong dialog when printing to file

Description:

When selecting Print to File from the javax.print dialog, an Open file dialog was shown.

Resolution:

Selecting Print to File displays a Save dialog.

Radar #4417162

Shared printers unsupported

Description:

Attempting to print to a shared printer redirected the print job to the default printer.

Resolution:

Print jobs sent to printers shared through other computers print on the shared printer.

Java Security

Radar #3173179

Restrictions on cryptographic operations

Description:

It was necessary to install Sun's unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files if there was a need for cryptographically strong certificates or algorithms.

Resolution:

Sun's unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files are now pre-installed.

Radar #4115657

KeychainStore and private keys

Description:

KeychainStore could not read or write the Key portion of private keys stored in the user's keychain.

Resolution:

KeychainStore can read private keys and certificate chains that make up an identity from Keychain. Also, PKCS#12-formatted identities can be stored and retrieved from Keychain.

Radar #4185385

Certificate trust alert clarification

Description:

The certificate trust alert was unclear that running the signed code granted the issuing application or applet unlimited access to the user's machine.

Resolution:

The certificate trust alert has been reworded to emphasize the consequences of clicking Trust. If your documentation used a screen shot of this alert, you should update it.

Radar #4280141

Certificate trust alert ownership

Description:

When a signed applet is loaded, the certificate trust alert is presented as a modal dialog. If the window with the signed applet was in the background, the dialog was shown but no indication was made to associate the alert and its applet.

Resolution:

The applet's window is brought to the foreground before presenting the certificate trust dialog. Also, the alert's title is set to the URL of the page hosting the applet.

Radar #4404315

PKCS#11 support missing

Description:

J2SE 5.0 supports native PKCS#11-based smartcard libraries. The required Jar and native library were not included with previous releases of J2SE 5.0 for Mac OS X.

Resolution:

J2SE 5.0 Release 4 includes PKCS#11 support.

Radar #4422901

KeychainStore loses certificates

Description:

Multiple operations on KeychainStore left it in an inconsistent state where certificates added by the developer may have been lost.

Resolution:

J2SE 5.0 release 4 includes a more robust implementation of KeychainStore.

Radar #4078337

Certificates for SSL authentication

Description:

Previous versions of J2SE 5.0 on Mac OS X didn't look in Keychain for certificates or keys for sites that used SSL authentication.

Resolution:

In J2SE 5.0 Release 4, the KeychainStore implementation is used to find certificates and keys requested by a server for SSL authentication. You can also continue to use a Java keystore (found at ~/Library/Caches/Java/security/trusted.clientcerts), but Keychain is the preferred location to store certificates and keys.

Java Swing

Radar #4404084

JPasswordField with Input methods

Description:

Input using Input methods while a JPasswordField had focus would send entered characters to the previously focused component.

Resolution:

Text entered into a JPasswordField properly dispatches each key-press into the JPasswordField, regardless of input method. Also, AWT correctly respects the use of enableInputMethods(false) on a Component.

Java SWT Support

Radar #3905894

AWT integration within SWT applications

Description:

SWT applications were unable to host AWT or Swing windows.

Resolution:

J2SE 5.0 allows SWT applications to host AWT and Swing windows. Java Web Start applications and Applets are unsupported.

This fix is provided by using the Compatibility Mode feature of CocoaComponent and is subject to many of its limitations. Also, you cannot embed AWT and Swing components within SWT windows. Finally, there are known issues with modal dialogs. To reliably show dialogs, use SwingUtilities.invokeLater.

Java Text

Radar #4298266

Type 1 fonts not loaded

Description:

Type 1 font files (pfa and pfb) were not loaded by FontManager.

Resolution:

The Sun 2D renderer, as discussed in “Sun 2D Renderer support,” supports Postscript Type 1 fonts.

Using the Quartz renderer allows you access the character to glyph mappings and some measurement data, but attempting to draw with a Type 1 font results in unexpected glyphs drawn in another font.

Radar #4298327

Custom font paths ignored

Description:

Paths specified using the sun.java2d.fontpath runtime option were not scanned for additional fonts to add to a Java application's font list.

Resolution:

Fonts in directories specified using the sun.java2d.fontpath runtime option are available.

Radar #4337704

Text in Metal-themed JTextAreas

Description:

When selecting text from the end of a line forward, the characters in the text moved and "shimmered" as the selection size changed.

Resolution:

The measurements for aliased text now align to the bounds of the displayed characters.

Radar #4367820

Font.canDisplay returns true

Description:

Font.canDisplay always returned true, even if the Font didn't have the requested glyph and Mac OS X character substitution couldn't find an appropriate substitute.

Resolution:

Font.canDisplay accurately returns whether or not a glyph can be displayed using a particular font. Note that there is no guarantee that the glyph comes from the requested font, only that a character can be displayed.

Radar #4371847

AWT controls use incorrect font

Description:

The order of font loading affected the font displayed on AWT controls, resulting in controls using Lucida Sans instead of Lucida Grande under some circumstances.

Resolution:

All AWT controls use Lucida Grande.

Radar #4390589

GlyphVector and AffineTransforms

Description:

Moving an individual glyph in a GlyphVector using the translation component of an AffineTransform didn't result in a translated glyph when the outline of the glyph was requested.

Resolution:

Translation components of AffineTransforms are applied to text drawn with GlyphVector.getOutline, Graphics.drawGlyphVector, and measurements of the GlyphVector.

Radar #4401414

Font style in name

Description:

Asking for an italic variant of a font by appending -Italic to it's name didn't provide an italic version.

Resolution:

Italic and bold italic variants are now returned by appending a space or a dash and the requested style.

Radar #4402021

Fractional font sizes

Description:

When drawing with a fractional size font using Font.deriveFont, measurements using the font would reflect the fractional size, however the actual drawing would only draw at the nearest integer size.

Resolution:

This problem has been fixed for all text drawing operations, such as Graphics.drawString, Graphics.drawGlyphVector, etc.

Java Virtual Machine

Radar #4383089

Incorrect code generation for arraylength bytecode

Description:

Code generated for the arraylength bytecode caused an IndexOutOfBoundsException to be thrown when using various Zip APIs.

Resolution:

The correct native code is generated.

Java Web Start

Radar #3655021

Splash icons used as Dock icon

Description:

If the first icon element in an information descriptor was of type splash, that element was used as the application icon, even if an icon of the correct type (default or none) was also listed.

Resolution:

The first icon with no type or of type default is used as the application icon.

Radar #4075884

JNLP settings not saved

Description:

If a JNLP file specified a custom memory setting or a property that would normally be set from the command line, the setting was not copied into the Java dictionary of the Info.plist when a desktop application was created.

Resolution:

When creating a desktop application, custom memory settings, safe VM options, and safe properties from the JNLP file are copied into the application's Info.plist.

Radar #4086608

Java Web Start man page

Description:

A number of the paths referred to in the Java Web Start man page were incorrect.

Resolution:

The Java Web Start man page has been updated.

Other Resolved Issues

Table 1-1 lists numerous issues present in previous versions of Java for Mac OS X that are resolved in J2SE 5.0 Release 4.

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