Hi Alan, Can you review the fix for: 6888546: restore System.initializeSystemClasses Webrev at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/6888546/webrev.00/ With the fix for 6612680, the download manager won't start until the VM completes its initialization. This is to remove the workaround added for jkernel in the fix for 6797688. Thanks Mandy