[osmosis-dev] Plugin Bug

[Brett Henderson]

marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just to shed some light here.
> The old plugin-system should still work, but I did not test it
> as I had no plugins for it.
> The new one just puts a new way to load instances of
> com.bretth.osmosis.core.plugin.PluginLoader
> in front of the old one (I did not want to change too many things).
>
> I can rule out that Java 1.6.0_10 is the reason as I am using _10
> here on a 32bit-system with no issues. (SSL-handling changed in _10
> but that does not affect us.)
>
> What exactly did you try with the "-p" -option?
> Did whatever you tried work in the 32bit-machine?
> Could you send me your old-style plugin, so I can
> check that the old plugin-api is indeed still working
> and if not fix it?
>
> I may try to download a 64bit linux-distribution and
> install it in a 64bit virtual machine emulated on a 32bit-one.
> However this will take a loooong time to do on my laptop.
> As your NullPointerException is inside the JavaPluginFramework
> I may find a simple testcase to send them and file a bug
> in their tracker. (I would never have thought something with
> no native IO-code to fail on a 64bit machine but work on a
> 32bit one.)
>   
I've just tried it on 32 and 64-bit windows JVMs and it works fine.  I 
don't have a 64-bit linux available either.

My 64-bit JVM is version 1.6.0_11 though, although I'd be surprised if 
that made a difference.

Brett