Problem with javaws, Mountain Lion, Oracle, Apple

Sat May 18 10:44:02 PDT 2013

On May 18, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> On May 17, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Abbey wrote:
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>>> In each case, I get a pop-up message warning me that I need to install
>>> the Java Runtime, despite it already being installed.
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>> If you do this from Terminal what do you get?
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>> /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/javaws -viewer
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>> Works for me but oddly enough in Terminal I get. 
>> 2013-05-17 18:48:55.261 java[1602:707] Sparkle Error: An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later.
>> 2013-05-17 18:48:55.263 java[1602:707] Sparkle Error (continued): An error occurred while parsing the update feed.
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>> anyone know where I might be getting this Sparkle error from. Looks like it might of prevented clean shutdown of the preferences app.
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> On May 18, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Marian Bouček wrote:
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>> Hello Mike.
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>> I just looked to Disabled.plist and Enabled.plist files contained in  /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents. I sudo edited Disabled.plist file which contains error in SUFeedURL. The value of this property contained double dot '..' - once I repaired it, javaws no longer printed error for me. Maybe this can help you a bit.
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> Thanks but for me both the disabled and enabled plist files and the Info.plist as well
> all appear to show...
> http://download.java.net/jdk8/mac/au/au.xml
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> That file doesn't appear to exist
> curl http://download.java.net/jdk8/mac/au/au.xml

Hello Michael,

Looking into this - Will update this thread when I have more information. I didn't get a version/build information from this email thread - I assume, based on this URL, this is an EA build for JDK8, correct? 

Thanks,
- Pranav

> <HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><TITLE>Not Found</TITLE></HEAD>
> <H1>Not Found</H1> The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. 
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> Checking from the browser it appears there is a http://download.java.net/jdk8 directory but it contains no mac directory.
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> So it doesn't seem to be a valid url for me but if it is the problem I don't know what to change it to in order to fix it.
> I am going to cross-post this one to macosx-port
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> Michael Hall
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