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Bug 493354

Summary:	Standalone applications fail on MacOSX El Capitan due to JDK-8143907 when using Java 7.
Product:	[Tools] GEF	Reporter:	Alexander Nyßen <nyssen>
Component:	Misc	Assignee:	Alexander Nyßen <nyssen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	0.2.0
Target Milestone:	4.0.0 (Neon) RC1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Alexander Nyßen

2016-05-10 11:07:12 EDT

Because of https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143907 certain standalone examples fail on El Capitan with the following NPE: 

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.sun.t2k.MacFontFinder.initPSFontNameToPathMap(MacFontFinder.java:339)
	at com.sun.t2k.MacFontFinder.getFontNamesOfFontFamily(MacFontFinder.java:390)
	at com.sun.t2k.T2KFontFactory.getFontResource(T2KFontFactory.java:232)
	at com.sun.t2k.LogicalFont.getSlot0Resource(LogicalFont.java:184)
	at com.sun.t2k.LogicalFont.getSlotResource(LogicalFont.java:228)
	at com.sun.t2k.CompositeStrike.getStrikeSlot(CompositeStrike.java:86)
	at com.sun.t2k.CompositeStrike.getMetrics(CompositeStrike.java:132)
	at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontUtils.getFontMetrics(PrismFontUtils.java:31)
	at com.sun.javafx.font.PrismFontLoader.getFontMetrics(PrismFontLoader.java:451)
	at javafx.scene.text.Text.<init>(Text.java:153)
	at javafx.scene.text.Text.<init>(Text.java:162)

As J2SE-1.7 is still to be supported for Neon, we should probably provide a workaround.

Comment 1 Alexander Nyßen

2016-05-10 11:26:10 EDT

- Added a static initializer to FXDomain, which provides a workaround for JDK-8143907 on Java 7 and Mac OS X El Capitan in standalone mode.
- Added a TODO to remove the respective functionality when dropping support for JavaSE-1.7.

Resolving as fixed in 4.0.0 RC1.