7u9 jnlp very touchy with vm args

[Scott Palmer]

You are missing a leading minus sign in the XML snippets you provided. Typo?
(I have no clue if that would make a difference as far as the acceptance of the args)

Scott

On 2012-10-24, at 5:52 PM, Jeff Palmer <jcpalmer at rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> I have isolated my problem, & I think the reason might help explain some other messages on the other list.  I have reviewed the allowable vm args in JNLPs as published:
> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/developersguide/syntax.html#resources
> 
> I was not fully compliant, as I was referencing the argument,  -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC.  
> 
> This is a working JNLP snippet from the previous release (7u8 I think):
>  <resources>
>      <j2se 
>          version="1.7+"
>          java-vm-args="-Xmx200m XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"
>      />
>      <jar href="my-app.jar"  />
>  </resources>
> 
>  <resources os="Mac">
>      <j2se 
>          version="1.6+"
>          java-vm-args="-Xmx200m XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true"
>      />
>  </resources>
> 
> Take out the unsupported argument in both places, and it now works.  7u9 does tolerate the GC arg on Windows still.
> 
> This is clearly not a bug.  I think a little better could be done on providing feed though.  The program just ENDS.  No warning, failure message, traces, nothing.  This makes it hard to find.
> 
> This one took a day.  I was concerned my Lion partition had a bunch of ea stuff which I had tinkered with & was not stock enough anyway,  so the time to blow it away & rebuilding it was still worth it.
> 
> Finally, after I re-installed, I just went to the Oracle site and installed the JRE.  In Safari, specifying a jnlp, downloads & starts it.  If you click on the desktop icon for subsequent runs you get message box from Software Update:
>    "To open "BLAH,BLAH, BLAH" you need a Java SE 6 runtime.  Would you like to install one now?"
> 
> No, I do not need this.  This message did NOT come up because I have the 2 j2se tags.  I tried when there was only 1.  
> 
> If I actually followed through and did that, it would not even use it.  (guess I have to though, starting though cache viewer is a pain).  The test is wrong.  It should be testing for the Oracle plugin installed.
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