<Swing Dev> Fwd: Bug in ShellFolder.

[Paulo Levi]

Forward. I already resolved it by serializing the string instead of
the file, but i thought you should know, if you don't already, why
people are seeing this exception on shutdown.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at sun.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Bug in ShellFolder.
To: Paulo Levi <i30817 at gmail.com>
Cc: nio-discuss at openjdk.java.net


Paulo Levi wrote:
>
> In this thread, i found a bug similar to a strange exception i was
> (not) seeing when overriding writeObject
>
> http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=31316&tstart=0
>
> I found that it occurs because of saving files returned by the
> filechooser (extensions of sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder) when trying to
> serialize on a shutdownhook,
> because serializing triggers some file operation that needs to send a
> task to a Executor that is already closed.
> I avoid it by:
> out.writeObject(new File(((File) first).getAbsolutePath()));
> Couldn't something equivalent be done in writeReplace be used for the
> same thing inside one of those classes?
>

Sorry, I can't help you here - I would suggest bringing it up on one
of the Swing forums or mailing lists.

-Alan.