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bug shows up depending on whether Java console is there or not.

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(This is about an entirely different project)

This is a WebStart-App, that still requires Java 1.6 on client
PC's to avoid the certification requirements that come with 1.7.
(The server is running in "their" intranet with clients not even 
allowed to the external internet, so the security "features" of
1.7 are as useful to "them" as a hole in the head.)

The app includes some xml-parsing stuff with un-/marshalling
xml-documents. This happens inside a try-catch(JAXBException),
and the exception wasn't ever really thrown, up to including
1.6.0_u45.

Now, "they" apparently have a special licence from Oracle, so "they"
also get access to the later patchlevels of 1.6, and so "they"
recently switched to 1.6.0_u51.

Now comes the strange part:  with 1.6.0_u51, that code block throws
an JAXBException, but only if the java console is hidden.  As soon
as the console is activated, code runs through perfectly normal (as
it did up to 1.6.0_u45 regardless of console).

Is this "proof" that something is wrong with _u51, or could anyone
think of a programming error that would show up only with a specific
version and depend on console visibility and cause a JAXBException
to be thrown? On top of that, the getLocalizedMessage() method on the
thrown exception returns null, and thus we don't really get much
information about the problem itself.

PS: there are also newer 1.6 updates than 51, but the others seem to
  have included some of the 1.7 "features", so cannot be used, either.

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bug shows up depending on whether Java console is there or not. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-12 17:53 +0000
  Re: bug shows up depending on whether Java console is there or not. Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-08-12 22:41 +0200
    Re: bug shows up depending on whether Java console is there or not. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-08-15 01:22 +0000
      Re: bug shows up depending on whether Java console is there or not. Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-08-15 11:07 +0200

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