Chat Room Crash

[Darren Watts]

The chat room crashed again about 6:45 tonight. I am trying to track down Dan Simon. Hero Games apologizes for this recurring problem- we are doing our best to find and eliminate the bugs causing this instability. I'll keep you informed. dw

[lemming]

Well, this is what I get when the mouse leaves the window:

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3 >= 3
at java.util.Vector.elementAt(Vector.java:427)
at javax.swing.JTabbedPane.setIconAt(JTabbedPane.java :1154)
at com.hero.chat.ChatApplet$7.mouseMoved(ChatApplet.j ava:552)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseMotionEvent(Compone nt.java:5138)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseMotionEvent(JCo mponent.java:2776)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:489 4)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:156 6)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.jav a:3598)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:1623)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:34 39)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent( Container.java:3450)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(C ontainer.java:3178)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Conta iner.java:3095)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.jav a:1609)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:34 39)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java: 450)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierar chy(EventDispatchThread.java:197)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:144)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:136)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java:99)

I don't think it's the cause, but may be part. Seems to be up again...

[Darren Watts]

The room did in fact come back about 7:15. We'll let you all know what Dan figures out. Thanks! dw

[Al_Beddow]

When I tried to use the chat, I kept getting an Error Message that I had the wrong version (1.4 something was needed).

I guess we need to keep an eye on the Java site and make sure we always have the current version installed?

[Simon]

Originally posted by Darren Watts
The chat room crashed again about 6:45 tonight. I am trying to track down Dan Simon. Hero Games apologizes for this recurring problem- we are doing our best to find and eliminate the bugs causing this instability. I'll keep you informed. dw

OK...I've spent some time this afternoon going through the server-side code for the chat and revamping it a fair bit.

The problem last night wasn't with any sort of a crash....as near as I can tell, the login listener just got swamped.

I've completely replaced the code for the login listener. The new version should be able to handle any load that is thrown at it....as should the server.

I've also changed the applet itself back to the "old" version....the one that was in place before I started using the HTML-enabled chat. This should take care of any lag/slow down issues that folks were having.

I'll stay online as much as I can tonight to test it out, but it's still going to be a matter of finding any bugs as they occur moving forward. I don't _think_ there will be any problems with the new code, but you can never tell for sure until you put it under load for a while.

[Simon]

Originally posted by lemming
Well, this is what I get when the mouse leaves the window:

I don't think it's the cause, but may be part. Seems to be up again...

That wasn't the cause of the problem (as you correctly surmised) but it was an annoyance. The new applet code fixes that issue.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Al_Beddow
When I tried to use the chat, I kept getting an Error Message that I had the wrong version (1.4 something was needed).

I guess we need to keep an eye on the Java site and make sure we always have the current version installed?

The applet requires a 1.3.1 (or better) JVM. If you don't have one installed on your system, it <i>should</i> prompt you to download the plugin, though this depends largely on your browser settings.

If you've pulled down the 1.4.1 installation of Java from Sun, you'll be better off anyway (there have been numerous improvements in Java of late)....but anything from 1.3.1 and on will work.