Mac OSX - SmartClient won't start application

[huber]

We are using the BrowserSuite, Robert. I read it's a problem, but what is the currents state and possible solution(s) for Servoy 5.2.16 and Java 1.6.0_51 on OS X 10.8.4?

Regards, Robert

Hi Robert,

Are you using the BrowserSuite ?

[LXS]

the client vm args seems to be the problem:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=19631&start=15#p105842

When you remove the parameters, you can login again in your solution.
If you want, you can remove only one parameter, try it and so on. Perhaps it is only one of theese parameters.

[ROCLASI]

It looks like I identified the culprit (Thanks to Alexanders's (LXS) post leading me into the right direction).

It's the -XstartOnFirstThread switch.
When I leave that out everything works again (and the BrowserSuite bean also keeps working).

So now my settings look like this:

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-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=3600000 -Dsun.awt.disableMixing=true -Djavaws.useDJNativeSwing=true -Djnlp.nativeswing.dependencies.checkVersions=false -Dhttp.agent=DJ

(Servoy Server 5.2.16, Browser Suite v0.9.73)

Hope this helps.

[ROCLASI]

It appears that opening the about window does kill the client in the sense that it doesn't paint the dialog correctly and freezes.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior ?

[huber]

Hi Robert

Thanks a lot, this works for our installations here as well
I just noticed, that in Servoy 7.2 rc there is only this argument left in servoy.vmClientArgs: -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=3600000
So it seems that even with Java 1.6.0_xx there is no need of the other arguments any more.
@Servoy: Is that assumption correct?

Regards, Robert

[LXS]

yes, i've seen such things too. We have a question dialog onClose() where the user is ask, if he really wants to close.
Some users do not see anything in the dialog. We have no solution yet

[jcompagner]

we don't add all those vm args (except the default softref thing)
those vm args are the browser suite.

[huber]

Robert

I can confirm this. Opening the About dialog (not showing the correct content) freezes everything associated with the client except the applications menu bar, so at least I can Quit the application.
My About looks like this (see appendix).

Regards, Robert

It appears that opening the about window does kill the client in the sense that it doesn't paint the dialog correctly and freezes.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior ?

[ROCLASI]

Hi Robert,

I just noticed, that in Servoy 7.2 rc there is only this argument left in servoy.vmClientArgs: -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=3600000
So it seems that even with Java 1.6.0_xx there is no need of the other arguments any more.
@Servoy: Is that assumption correct?

The other arguments are put there by the BrowserSuite installer. They are required to make the bean work.
And as far as I know the BrowserSuite doesn't really work on Mac using Java 7 (it does on other platforms).

[ROCLASI]

My About looks like this (see appendix).

Yep, that's what I see as well.

[LXS]

do you have the same behaviour on other dialogs as well? (plugins.dialogs.*)

[ROCLASI]

Hi Alexander,

do you have the same behaviour on other dialogs as well? (plugins.dialogs.*)

plugins.dialogs.* and the client's preference window do work fine for me. Also form in modal dialogs (FIMD) seems to work without issues.
It seems there is something in the about window that causes this freeze. Anyway, no showstopper.

[huber]

Hi All

We still have the problem with the following messages:

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Missing Permissions manifest attribute for: http://<ip-adr>:8081/lib/j2db.jar
Missing Codebase manifest attribute for: http://<ip-adr>:8081/lib/j2db.jar
Missing Permissions manifest attribute for: http://<ip-adr>:8081/lib/js.jar
Missing Codebase manifest attribute for: http://<ip-adr>:8081/lib/js.jar
...

when starting the Servoy 5.2 Smart Client on OS X 10.8.4 and Java 1.6.0_51.

Additional problem we realized, the application menus like File Edit ... don't work any more. I also can't find any error message associated with that. It would be very helpful if someone please could confirm that.

Is there a known workaround?

[Harjo]

The warnings you see, about missing permissions & codebase can be fixed by using the latest signtester!

see here: https://www.servoyforge.net/projects/signtester/wiki

[huber]

Thanks Harjo. Unfortunatly I still have the the Missing Codebase manifest attribute messages. I used the latest signtester version v1.2.
Any further idea?

The warnings you see, about missing permissions & codebase can be fixed by using the latest signtester!

see here: https://www.servoyforge.net/projects/signtester/wiki