NullPointer + Jars

[Gregory R. Warnes]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jeff Sturm wrote:

  JS>> "Gregory R. Warnes" wrote:
  JS>> > 1) Why can't it load the resource from the jar?
  JS>> 
  JS>> Is the jar compressed?  (I seem to remember problems loading compressed
  JS>> archives, though that may have been fixed.)

Eurika!  I created an uncompressed jar ("jar -0 -cvf ...") from the raw
files and now the resource data is correctly read.   

And yes, I just searched the archives and the problem with compressed jar
files has come up a number of times, although usually in the context of
compiling.  This is a real pain because the standard jar tools do compression
by default so one is unlikeley to find a jar file that is not compressed.

Until it compressed jar files work, this should go into the FAQ.

  JS>> > 2) Why does it run differently under gdb?
  JS>> 
  JS>> Any chance the SIGSEGV was handled and ignored at runtime?  What happens
  JS>> if you try "handle SIGSEGV nostop" in gdb?

Nope, "handle SIGSEGV nostop" doesn't make a difference.  It still fails
to load the resource bundle.  It was a good guess though, any other
ideas?

-Greg