InvocationTargetException when running applet locally

[Mickey Segal]

Thanks for the information.  I apologize for the delay in responding; the reason will become clear below.  
	
I'll need to get up to speed on JNLP and will be able to do this until the conference I'm at ends and Saturday and I have a few days off before the next conference.  

However, reading through the release notes I would have guessed that the problem is the one labeled "Non-JNLP trusted applet fails to load using the file:\\ URL."  I'll need to read up about JNLP to try these workarounds.  

I also found that the problem is even worse on Windows 8.1 on a Microsoft Surface 2.  The applet at http://www.segal.org/java/SignedAppletTest/ doesn't run locally using either Internet Explorer (version 11) or Firefox, even using Java 8 build 111.  Fortunately our main applet, which this test applet was made to mimic, does run using Firefox and 8 b111, so I'm able to demonstrate the software at the conference (but it doesn't run locally on IE 11  even using 8 build 111).  But I discovered this at 2:30 AM (the Surface went on sale at midnight) and got virtually no sleep that night because it took a while to find the Firefox workaround and I needed to be back at the conference early in the morning.

I usually answer email sooner, but it has been a rough few days, but all of those who are working on Java and occasionally hear claims that it Java slow will be gratified to know that we can run a clinical analysis of a genome in under a second on Microsoft's new tablet using Java.  

Once we can solve the problem with running locally we will feel better, and get more sleep. 	

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Mullan [mailto:sean.mullan at oracle.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 2:39 PM

I think this is a known issue. There is a workaround documented in the 
JDK 7u45 release notes, can you try it out? See "JNLP applet fails to 
load if using JNLP versioning.":

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u45-relnotes-2016950.html