applet locks-up jvm: IllegalStateException: zip file closed

From:
 "Adrian Hands, Raleigh NC USA" <aeh@akc.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:01:59 -0700
Message-ID:
<1182884519.729949.43730@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
public class BugTest
    extends java.applet.Applet
{
    private final static String JLFGR =
        "jar:http://www.foobar.com/someapp/lib/jlfgr-1_0.jar!"; //
sun-supplied jar file

    public void start()
    {
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Runnable()
{ public void run() {
            javax.swing.JFrame frame = new BugTestFrame();
            frame.pack();
            frame.setVisible( true );
        } } );
    }

    public static class BugTestFrame
        extends javax.swing.JFrame
    {
        public BugTestFrame()
        {
            java.awt.Container cp = new javax.swing.JPanel();
            setContentPane( cp );

            try {

                // this file is not in the jar. the attempt to find
it seems to leave the jar in an unexpected (closed) state, and causes
the next line to lock up the jvm & browser:
                new javax.swing.ImageIcon( new java.net.URL( JLFGR + "/
foobar.gif" ) );

                // here's where it locks up and everything becomes
unresponsive:
                cp.add( new javax.swing.JLabel( new
javax.swing.ImageIcon( new java.net.URL( JLFGR + "/
toolbarButtonGraphics/general/Stop16.gif" ) ) ) );

            } catch( java.net.MalformedURLException exc ) {
                exc.printStackTrace();
            }

        }
    }
}

Uncaught error fetching image:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: zip file closed
 at java.util.zip.ZipFile.ensureOpen(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.zip.ZipFile.getEntry(Unknown Source)
 at java.util.jar.JarFile.getEntry(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.deploy.cache.CachedJarFile.getEntry(Unknown Source)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
 at sun.plugin.net.protocol.jar.CachedJarURLConnection.connect(Unknown
Source)
 at
sun.plugin.net.protocol.jar.CachedJarURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown
Source)
 at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getDecoder(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(Unknown Source)
 at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(Unknown Source)

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