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This is found in build 020206 on Solaris8. It is OK on windows2000 To reproduce: Start IDE then go to Explorer[Filesystems]. Select Filesystems, then press F1 button. The ide then is trying to load help, but it will crash after it almost finishes loading. The following exception found at the console: Exception while creating engine named com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultSearchEngine for view: javax.help.SearchView@543c44 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.security.InvalidParameterException at com.sun.java.help.search.DefaultSearchEngine.<init>(DefaultSearchEngine.java:75) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Native Method) at javax.help.search.MergingSearchEngine.makeEngine(MergingSearchEngine.java:148) at javax.help.search.MergingSearchEngine.merge(MergingSearchEngine.java:82) at javax.help.JHelpSearchNavigator.merge(JHelpSearchNavigator.java:160) at javax.help.JHelp.addHelpSet(JHelp.java:322) at javax.help.JHelp.setupNavigators(JHelp.java:131) at javax.help.JHelp.<init>(JHelp.java:91) at javax.help.JHelp.<init>(JHelp.java:63) at org.netbeans.core.JavaHelp.createJHelp(JavaHelp.java:634) at org.netbeans.core.JavaHelp.showHelp(JavaHelp.java:192) at org.netbeans.core.Help.showHelp(Help.java:419) at org.netbeans.core.JavaHelp$1.run(JavaHelp.java:148) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:154) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:337) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:131) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:98) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:85)
duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 20204 ***
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> verified.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.