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Bug 359402

Summary:	Not able to run JUnit Plug-in Test for a Swing application due to -XstartOnFirstThread being set
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Robert Krueger <krueger>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	amj87.iitr, Michael_Rennie
Version:	3.7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Robert Krueger

2011-09-29 07:21:14 EDT

Build Identifier: M20110909-1335

I'm developing an OSGI-based Swing application within Eclipse on Mac OS 10.6. I'm trying to get a JUnit Plug-In Test to run but the Swing application does not start because of the -XstartOnFirstThread command line parameter that is always being set, which I can see looking at the output of ps. I verified that the exact same command line Eclipse assembles works when executed outside of Eclipse without -XstartOnFirstThread. However, then, of course, the RemoteTestRunner fails because it attempts to connect to something that isn't listening (I assume that starting a JUnit Plugin Test run config opens a server socket to await the test results or something like that). At the moment I cannot think of any workaround other than wrapping a shell script around my java executable to remove the parameter but that would require configuring a separate JRE for this purpose which feels very hackish.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Any app using Swing will not run as a JUnit Plug-In test on Mac OS X AFAIK

Comment 1 Ayushman Jain

2011-09-29 09:21:33 EDT

Moving to JDT/Debug

Comment 2 Michael Rennie

2013-12-06 11:11:57 EST

bug 211625 added support to not include the -XstartOnFirstThread argument via the Arguments tab when launching.

Closing worksforme.