<Swing Dev> Fwd: Bug in ShellFolder.

[Pavel Porvatov]

Hi Paulo,

I'll take a look at the problem and let you know the result...

Thanks, Pavel
> 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.
>