September 16^th, 2004

Well, the crash reoccured a few times over the last few days. To be exact:

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# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error : 11
# Error ID : 4F530E43505002EF
# Please report this error at
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
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# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.4.2_05-b04 mixed mode)
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This seems to be a known problem. There are numerous bug reports in Sun's bug parade. However, they fixed at least one instance of this bug. It seems to be a threading / synchronization / classloader issue. For the moment I fixed it by installing IBM's JVM that's at least just-as-good. Unfortunately, IBM's JVM for Windows is not publicly available anymore. You can still get it by downloading trial packages of Java-based IBM-Software, but I dislike the fact that I can't have a consistent development environment on Windows and Linux. Let's hope that Sun fixes this bug in time for Java 5.