Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gtk.init throws exception when run on Ubuntu 13.04

[Johan G. <joh...@gm...>]

On 21/07/13 02:20, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 00:38 +0100, Johan Groth wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've just installed libjava-gnome-java on a Ubuntu 13.04 box (only
>> Linux dist I've got available). Fired up Eclipse Juno, added the
>> library to my project (and the docs of course) and tried to run it but
>> I'm getting an exception! What is going on here?
>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
>>      at org.gnome.gtk.Gtk.init(Gtk.java:95)
> This is bizarre.
>
>> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>>      at
>> org.freedesktop.bindings.Plumbing.loadNativeCode(Plumbing.java:192)
>>      at org.freedesktop.bindings.Plumbing.<clinit>(Plumbing.java:110)
>>      ... 2 more
> Ok, that's more interesting.
>
> This means the code at line 191 returned null. [which is why I'm so
> particular about not chaining method calls]. So ProtectionDomain's
> getCodeSource() is returning null. That's annoying; . It doesn't here.
>
> What version of Java are you using? And, can you describe how you're
> running the program (from within Eclipse? from the command line?).
It seems to me that java-gnome 4.1.2 is broken on Ubuntu 13.04. I simply 
can't get it to work. Oh, well, back to using Swing.

Regards,
Johan