Release Notes

Description: Trying to access the Java Warehouse can lead to a Connection Timeout error.

Workaround: Refresh the URL and try again.

Description: Create a paid application. Buy it, install it, and launch it in the Store Preview. Create a new version of the same application and try to buy, install and launch it again. An already installed error message is displayed.

Workaround: Clear the Java cache or use the Preview option instead of Buy.

Description: If an application is resubmitted without a comment, the user receives an error, "Errors prevent submission. Correct the indicated errors before resubmitting".

Workaround: Enter a comment before clicking Submit, otherwise choose Save for Later, re-enter the comment and click Submit.

Description: If a developer tries to run a second Store Preview without first closing the original instance, the second Store Preview will fail.

Workaround: Run one preview at a time. Close the previous preview instance before running the next one.

Description: When submitting a new version for a published product, the category field remains uneditable.

Workaround: Use the comment section to ask the Java Warehouse operations team to change the category for the product.

Description: Screenshots entered out of order (e.g. screenshot 1 and screenshot 5 only) during the submission of an application, the correct images may not be visible in the Java Store client.

Workaround: Submit screenshots in order (e.g. screenshot 1, screenshot 2 and screenshot 3).

Description: The Warehouse login asks for your Sun Developer Network user name and password, but the user name should be the email address that you used to register with the Java Store.

Workaround: None.

Description: The email notifying a developer of his approval to submit applications to the Java Warehouse requests that the membership fee be paid, whether or not the fees were waived.

Workaround: None.

Description: If the short description entered for an application exceeds the 90 character limit, the text of the description may be partially obscured when viewed in the Developer Dashboard. The text will be displayed correctly in the Java Store client.

Workaround: None.

Description: During the application submission process, options selected on the Code page do not take effect until you click Done or Submit. If you try to preview the product in Show Store View before clicking Done or Submit, the product will fail to launch.

Workaround: Press Done or Submit on the code page before trying to launch the store preview.

Description: When including comments with your initial application submission, clicking Submit for Review before sending the comments will submit your application without submitting the comments that you have entered.

Workaround: Click Comments before clicking Submit for Review to include your comment with the submission.

Description: Users cannot update installed aplications.

Workaround: Uninstall the old application and then install the updated version.

Description: On Windows 7 systems, the cache store location for this release has changed to the following:
C:\Users\vl198804\AppData\LocalLow\.javastore\
This location is a change from the previous release, which stored the cache store in the following location:
c:\Users\vl198804\.javastore\
As a result, applications installed with the previous release are not visible in this release, and user settings are lost.

Workaround: None.

Description: When a user's Windows environment has a version of Java below the minimum supported version for Java Store, a dialog box correctly provides the notification of the minimum Java version required, but then the URL opens that does not match the user's platform.

Workaround: Upgrade your version of Java.

Description: The rating set by a user for an installed application is not takien into account by the server.

Workaround: None

Description: When a developer submits an application, the first time Show Store Preview is selected the application launches successfully. However, further attempts to launch the application from the preview screen trigger an error.

Workaround: None.

Description: Depending on the configuration of Windows environments, the Java Store client can utilize 35-80% of the CPU on low-end systems, even when no content is being actively downloaded. When performing operations, the CPU utilization can rise even higher.

Workaround: None

Description: If the Java Store client is left open when the computer goes to sleep, it might hang when the computer wakes up.

Workaround: Kill the JavaStore application and relaunch it.

Description: When the Java Store is launched on a Windows system with both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Java VM installed, the Java Store tries to start, but then an exception occurs and the installation fails.

Workaround: Reinstall the 32-bit version of the Java VM. Relaunch the Java Store.

Description: The user is given an error message from PayPal that their purchase would exceed the Simplified Payment spending limitation.

Workaround: Make the purchase without using Simplified Payment.

Description: Attempting to make a purchase with insufficient funds in your Simplified Payment account results in the following error from PayPal, "Your payment cannot be processed because no instant funding source is available."

Workaround: None.