7u4 Request for approval for CR 7081670 Disposing an AppContext can lead to a spinning EventDispatchThread

Tue Nov 22 04:43:06 PST 2011

Good day.

I hereby request an approval to backport a fix for CR 7081670.

The problem description could be found at the next location
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7081670

The fix has been integrated into jdk8 forest. Below is the changeset.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/jdk/rev/d72ac458b2b7

The fix for jdk8 has been reviewed in the next Open JDK threads by art 
(Artem Ananiev), anthony (Anthony Petrov), dholmes (David Holmes)

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2011-September/001917.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2011-August/001858.html

A webrev for for the direct forward port has been reviewed by anthony 
(Anthony Petrov).

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~denis/7081670/webrev.00

Thank you,
     Denis.