InvocationTargetException when running applet locally

[Sean Mullan]

On 10/18/2013 06:37 AM, Mickey Segal wrote:
> We were able to get past the problem of getCodeBase() returning null
> by hard-coding the URL.  This worked in 7 update 25 and 7 update 40.
> We were able to debug that problem because the applet would launch
> and we could use println statements find that the problem was
> getCodeBase() returning null.  But the problem with 7 update 45 is
> that we don't even get to the stage of anything appearing in the Java
> Console; even from a println at the beginning of the code.  So we
> don't have a set of stacked Exceptions because the only clue that
> InvocationTargetException is involved is an error dialog that come
> up, but when one clicks the option for details, the Java Console is
> displayed, but no messages appear.

Check the log files in $HOME/.java/deployment/log directory. Perhaps 
some messages aren't appearing in the console for some reason.

Otherwise, I would suggest to please file a bug so we can look into it 
further: http://bugs.sun.com/

Thanks,
Sean