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mmoser18
Frequent Contributor
13 years ago

loadUI startup fundamentally flawed

Alas, I have to state that the current way that loadUI starts up is fundamentally flawed!

I am trying to use it in our server room but that environment is heavily shielded by firewalls. Whenever I try to start loadUI in there (i.e. while I cannot reach the internet) it crashes on startup with:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://dl.javafx.com/1.3/javafx-rt-windows-i586__V1.3.1_ b101.jar
 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


Wrapped Exception:
java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
 at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
 at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
 ...


So, exactly in such environments that I would consider a "natural habitat" for loadUI it is unusable! That's really annoying and a pitty...

M.

2 Replies

  • PM_r's avatar
    PM_r
    Icon for Staff rankStaff
    13 years ago
    You need connection to the Internet to install loadUI (and first startup).

    This will not be required loadUI 2.5.

    Regards

    Henrik
    SmartBear Software
  • mmoser18's avatar
    mmoser18
    Frequent Contributor
    13 years ago
    > You need connection to the Internet to install loadUI (and first startup).

    That's what I thought initially as well (since I know JNLP a bit and have distributed code using it myself somw while ago) but, alas, that's not the case. LoadUI crashes ALWAYS if I am not connected to the internet, not just at first startup. Even if I was working with it a couple of times in another environment and then walk over with my laptop into the server room and try to fire it up there, it will crash as described.

    Looking very much forward to v2.5. Is there already a beta available?