Hello,
I am not sure where to start debugging to deal with a freezing program. This is strange since the program runs fine from within the Eclipse
IDE. When I export it to a runnable JAR, the freeze happens after a few interactions with that instance of the program.
I'm on OSX 10.7.4 and my JAR freezes in both 1.6_37 and 1.7_09. One unknown from my POV is how Eclipse runs with multiple versions of
Java installed on my Mac. When I set Eclipse to compile with either 1.6 or 1.7, the program runs fine in the IDE. Using the Java Preferences utility program, I have moved both 1.7 and 1.6 64bit into the top spot during my quest to find the cause of this problem. Whenever I run Terminal and type java -version, it always returns 1.7_09 so I don't know if Eclipse follows that or not when I set it to compile in 1.6.
The program stores text in an ObjectOutputStream that is stored locally in a file. I use ObjectInputStream to access the file. The file is less than 100k.
I am at a loss as to explain why it runs in the IDE, but fails as a JAR. When running with either the JAR version or inside the IDE, both access the same file with the Streams.
Perhaps someone can point me in the direction of a possible cause? Or maybe a guess? I know the scope of this question is awfully general, but until I can narrow down where to look, I don't know how to be more specific. I don't remember having this problem before the recent updates to Java, but I've only made this program a runnable JAR a few times in the past, so the problem may have existed before the updates.
Thanks for the help,
BD