Intermittent display problems in JRE 7

[Mickey Segal]

I will try to generate a new test applet for the display problem in our huge applet if I can't find a suitable applet from the large numbers of test applets at http://www.segal.org/java/.  I'm going through the collection of test applets and finding various problems.  

At Mike Swingler's suggestion I've already filed a bug report with Apple about the issue in the "Applet won't run first time on Safari" issue, and will add the details to http://www.segal.org/java/Hello/ URL.  I will file a report on the bug at http://www.segal.org/java/refresh/ with Oracle.    

If I install JRE 8, can I toggle between 7 and 8?  How close are we to the time that 7 users will get pushed to 8?  Our huge applet is in wide use for key medical decisions and we can't just tell everyone to wait or switch to Windows.

-----Original Message-----
From: David DeHaven [mailto:david.dehaven at oracle.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 1:53 PM
To: Mickey Segal
Cc: macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Intermittent display problems in JRE 7


> Is this a known problem, or do I need to reproduce it in a tiny applet to get this fixed?  Is there some simple workaround?  I’ve tried various invalidate / validate approaches without success.  

I don't know that it's a known problem or not. If you can generate a small sample that reproduces the issue, please file a bug at http://bugs.sun.com, some engineer will at least be able to test the bug against the current state of 7u-dev. There are numerous fixes for Mac OS X that will be released with 7u40, currently due in August.

I also strongly encourage you to try the JDK 8 early access (at http://jdk8.java.net) to see if the problem still exists or if it's just in the current 7u line.

-DrD-