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[robogeek <david.herron@xxxxxxx>]

My system never had icedtea-7 installed and it runs the thing fine (I
assume "the Jigzone applet" means any of the jigsaw puzzles on that
site...?).  But testing which java version is being executed for applets
it appears that the java alternative is ignored.  I have java-1.5.0-sun,
java-6-sun and java-6-openjdk installed along with firefox 3.0b5.  No
matter what the setting of the current java alternative using the test
applet at http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml?ff3 it shows that
the 6u6 plugin is being used.

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applet fails to load with nullpointerexception
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199732
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Status in Source Package "icedtea-gcjwebplugin" in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: icedtea-java7-plugin

I am trying to access an applet from http://www.jigzone.com. The applet fails to load with error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at sun.applet.PluginMain.start(PluginMain.java:211)
	at sun.applet.PluginMain.main(PluginMain.java:73)


I am running Hardy Alpha 6 (firefox3, icedtea-java7). The applet works just fine on my Gutsy box (firefox2, sun6).

I have attached the complete console output

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar  7 23:13:26 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox 3.0~b3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-generic i686