id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
213	Java crashes eCS 2.1	oara27		"First thing after booting, I started and then closed Firefox (10.0.12). 

Then I tried to run TightVNC 2.6.2 Java app (get it here
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php)
Although it used to run with eCS Java GA 4 and older, it has not been working well with GA5. Now it wouldn't open past the login screen. My desktop was frozen, the cursor became the VNC remote desktop point cursor.

I used the C-A-D popup's TOP app to kill the Java process. 

After returning to my working desktop, I opened Firefox again to come to this page, to look for Java updates. At the same time I tried to check the Java -version in a 4OS2 window. 

The system immediately crashed to a black screen. NO messages in POPUPLOG.OS2. Rebooting required chkdsk on all my HPFS and JFS drives.

After the reboot, I reproduced the issue with the VNC desktop, and the need to kill the JAVA process with TOP. I had also increased the virtual address limit from 1 GB to 2 GB, to see if it would help, no dice.

My system is a 4GB RAM with 4-cores AMD Phenom II, 500 GB HDD, XFX AMD 1GB video. 

I run eCS 2.1 with Odin 0.8.9, Java GA5 (of course). 

Since JAVA is already at v. 7.17 for all other OS's, and all older Java versions are VERY unsafe, what is the prospect for a proper working, safe Java for eCS? Given that eCS is well outside the mainstream of OS's in browsers, media players, office apps, etc., incremental approaches releasing successive older versions of Java won't work. If it is not possible to proceed directly to the latest Java, isn't this the end of the road for OS/2-eCS?
"	defect	new	major	Enhanced	general	1.6.0 Build 27 GA5	medium