Cannot access 3.5.5 solution with web client

I am not able to access my solution with web client since the 3.5.5 update - the log in page does not even load and I get an error in the server log

2008-02-27 09:17 http-8080-1 ERROR com.servoy.j2db.util.Debug Error rendering the page null
org.apache.wicket.WicketRuntimeException: Can’t instantiate page using constructor public com.servoy.j2db.server.headlessclient.SignIn()
at org.apache.wicket.session.DefaultPageFactory.newPage(DefaultPageFactory.java:168)
at org.apache.wicket.session.DefaultPageFactory.newPage(DefaultPageFactory.java:58)
at org.apache.wicket.request.target.component.BookmarkablePageRequestTarget.newPage(BookmarkablePageRequestTarget.java:262)
at org.apache.wicket.request.target.component.BookmarkablePageRequestTarget.getPage(BookmarkablePageRequestTarget.java:283)
at org.apache.wicket.request.target.component.BookmarkablePageRequestTarget.processEvents(BookmarkablePageRequestTarget.java:210)
at org.apache.wicket.request.AbstractRequestCycleProcessor.processEvents(AbstractRequestCycleProcessor.java:90)
at org.apache.wicket.RequestCycle.processEventsAndRespond(RequestCycle.java:1166)
at org.apache.wicket.RequestCycle.step(RequestCycle.java:1241)
at org.apache.wicket.RequestCycle.steps(RequestCycle.java:1316)
at org.apache.wicket.RequestCycle.request(RequestCycle.java:493)
at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.doGet(WicketFilter.java:354)
at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketServlet.doGet(WicketServlet.java:121)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:244)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:276)
at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:162)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:283)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:56)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:185)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:230)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:563)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:261)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:581)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
at org.apache.wicket.session.DefaultPageFactory.newPage(DefaultPageFactory.java:149)
… 38 more
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: FormComponent class org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.PasswordTextField does not support cookies
at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.FormComponent.setPersistent(FormComponent.java:956)
at com.servoy.j2db.server.headlessclient.SignIn.a(Unknown Source)
at com.servoy.j2db.server.headlessclient.SignIn.access$300(Unknown Source)
at com.servoy.j2db.server.headlessclient.SignIn$SignInForm.(Unknown Source)
at com.servoy.j2db.server.headlessclient.SignIn.(Unknown Source)
… 43 more
2008-02-27 09:17 http-8080-1 ERROR org.apache.wicket.RequestCycle Can’t instantiate page using constructor public com.servoy.j2db.server.headlessclient.SignIn()

I get the same error from my deployed demo solution and my local install. The interesting line seems to be the one that says

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: FormComponent class org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.PasswordTextField does not support cookies
at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.FormComponent.setPersistent(FormComponent.java:956)

Is anyone else seeing this?

We are investigating this problem, was also reported as support case.

fixed for 3.5.6