RFA 8211435: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null source

[Andrew Hughes]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 19:56, Martin Balao <mbalao at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to request an approval for the backport of "8211435 - Exception
> in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null
> source" [1] to jdk7u.
>
>  *
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbalao/webrevs/8211435/8211435.webrev.jdk7u.00/
>
> We need this patch in jdk7u because I'm planning to backport 8204142 bug
> fix [2] to jdk7u and it may expose the bug fixed by 8211435.
>
> Risk introduced is very low. Backport was trivial. Patch applies almost
> cleanly; I just enabled the test for all platforms and replaced the
> usage of lambda functions (unsupported in jdk7u).
>
> Thanks,
> Martin.-
>
> --
> [1] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211435
> [2] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204142

Looks good, but this should wait until after the pending release.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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