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Bug 312109

Summary:

Starting application that requires main thread when it is not available throws meaningless exception

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Equinox

Reporter:

Michal Tkacz <Michal.Tkacz>

Component:

Compendium

Assignee:

Thomas Watson <tjwatson>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

batxut, jeffmcaffer, tjwatson

Version:

unspecified

Flags:

jeffmcaffer: review+

Target Milestone:

3.6 RC1

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch	none

Description Michal Tkacz

2010-05-07 14:41:02 EDT

Build Identifier: 

In certain circumstances, e.g. when OSGi is run on top of servlet container with servletbridge, the main thread is not available. In that case starting an application that requires one (as defined using org.eclipse.core.runtime.applications extension point) throws following exception:


org.osgi.service.application.ApplicationException
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppContainer.launch(EclipseAppContainer.java:328)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppDescriptor.launchSpecific(EclipseAppDescriptor.java:93)
    at org.osgi.service.application.ApplicationDescriptor.launch(ApplicationDescriptor.java:315)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.AppCommands._startApp(AppCommands.java:183)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkCommandInterpreter.execute(FrameworkCommandInterpreter.java:155)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkConsole.docommand(FrameworkConsole.java:157)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkConsole.runConsole(FrameworkConsole.java:142)
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.FrameworkConsole.run(FrameworkConsole.java:106)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

The idea is to add a message that would make clear the reason of the error.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thomas Watson

2010-05-11 12:11:25 EDT

I consider this a bug, not an enhancement.  I will fix in next release since we are ramping down 3.6.

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2010-05-11 12:13:34 EDT

On second thought.  I will just fix this now to avoid more possible confusion.

Comment 3 Thomas Watson

2010-05-11 12:23:32 EDT

Created attachment 167961 [details]
patch

Comment 4 Thomas Watson

2010-05-11 12:24:02 EDT

Jeff, please review.

Comment 5 Thomas Watson

2010-05-11 13:02:57 EDT

Patch released for RC1.