java.util.logging bug 8017174 should be fixed for Java 7

[Alan Bateman]

On 03/07/2013 22:33, Sam Reid wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My name is Sam Reid, I am a software engineer at PhET Interactive 
> Simulations (http://phet.colorado.edu/) at the University of Colorado 
> Boulder.  We publish free, open source educational simulations, most 
> of which are developed for the Java runtime and delivered with Java 
> Web Start.  We have received many reports from our users that after 
> updating to Java 1.7.0_25, our simulations fail to launch.  The 
> problem is the one identified in this bug report:
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8017174 "8017174 : 
> NPE when using Logger.getAnonymousLogger or 
> LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger"
>
> The bug report says the problem is fixed for latest JDK 8 but I am 
> hoping that a fix will be posted in the Java 1.7.0_xx line as well, 
> and hopefully in time for school to start in August.  I am unable to 
> make comments in the bug report, even when I am logged in.  Is there a 
> way I can comment in that bug report?  Do you think this will get 
> fixed for the 1.7.0_xx line?  If so, when?
I don't think bugs.sun.com supports comments any more but there is open 
bug database coming.

As regards 8017174 then the fix was pushed to jdk8 a few days ago. TBD 
on jdk7u but since this one is a regression (when reloading applets at 
least) then it does need to be considered. I'm not directly involved in 
this one but just a general comment that the logging code has a habit of 
biting back. I think it needs to at least get through some testing in 
jdk8 to see if any other issues emerge.

-Alan.