SimTK: OpenSim: [#2269] GUI freezes caused by Proxy problems

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Date:
2016-04-25 07:50

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Oliver Rettig (rettigoliver)

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GUI freezes caused by Proxy problems

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In our clinicals we are not able to use Opensim because in the starting process of opensim the gui freezes. The reason is the specific Proxy between the clincs Intranet and the Internet. Opensim trys to connect to the Internet during Startup - maybe to connecto to an update Center. To do this it uses the JDK build in Default api to handle the Proxy. With Version 8 of JDK the build in Java-script engine is changed and the internaly used scripts to autdetect needed Information faild. That´s why a modal window for Input credentials is opend but this does not work well. In most of the cases this window is not shown because it conflicts with the main application window which result in a freeze of the complete application. OpenSim has excluded the Options Panel to configure the Proxy configuration, so also a Workaround by manually configuration is not possible Event if you have the luck the application starts without freezing the GUI. The good Thing is, that there is a solution available: https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansproxy2 It is only needed to ship the Opensim application with this module and all would be work fine. I have tested it in our clinics with other nebeans platform based applications and it works fine. I would be very useful if you can include this module very soon in opensim.
In our clinicals we are not able to use Opensim because in the starting process of opensim the gui freezes. The reason is the specific Proxy between the clincs Intranet and the Internet. Opensim trys to connect to the Internet during Startup - maybe to connecto to an update Center. To do this it uses the JDK build in Default api to handle the Proxy. With Version 8 of JDK the build in Java-script engine is changed and the internaly used scripts to autdetect needed Information faild. That´s why a modal window for Input credentials is opend but this does not work well. In most of the cases this window is not shown because it conflicts with the main application window which result in a freeze of the complete application. OpenSim has excluded the Options Panel to configure the Proxy configuration, so also a Workaround by manually configuration is not possible Event if you have the luck the application starts without freezing the GUI. The good Thing is, that there is a solution available: https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansproxy2 It is only needed to ship the Opensim application with this module and all would be work fine. I have tested it in our clinics with other nebeans platform based applications and it works fine. I would be very useful if you can include this module very soon in opensim.

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Date: 2016-04-28 22:14 Sender: Ayman Habib Oliver, Thanks much for digging into this. Since this hasn't been reported widely as a problem, and it will be impossible for us to test a fix without reproducing, it'd be best to work with you to try to resolve the problem on your side first. One idea is to open the Tools/Plugins window, go to setting tab and either modify the Proxy Settings there or tell the application to "Never" check for updates. We don't plan on any updates to version 3.2 or 3.3. Can you try that first and report if it solves the problem? If not I'll be happy to work with you to find a workable solution. All the best.
Date: 2016-04-28 14:55 Sender: Oliver Rettig Hi Ayman, I do not know a lot about the details of proxies but I think the proxy in our clinic is a typical one for big institutions. There are similar reasons why the complex proxy configurations tend to the effect that asking the default proxy credentials for a loogedin user not always the first time results in a correct answer. Looking at the network traffic shows different things why this can fail. Typically this is no problem because most applications asks again and all works fine. But the JDK (escpecially in version 8) has some problems with that. That is why even matlab have more and more problems with that. For netbeans based applications there are additional problems caused by the bad implementation of the proxy-module. This can result in a suprising dialog box where the user has to put in credentials although the user can not be see why he has to put it in. And the more problematic part is, that the gui can freeze because that window is a modal one and it is created in the startup phase ... These problems are netbeans platform specific. So we habe problems with several netbeans platform based applications, not only opensim. Have a look at the link. It would be very easy to include the additional module to get rid of that problems. best regards Oliver
Date: 2016-04-25 18:10 Sender: Ayman Habib Hi Oliver, Wonderful to hear from you. Can you please explain the symptoms? I'm quite surprised this's the first time I hear about this issue with close to 5000 installations. What's different in your environment? Thanks much for the explanation of what broke and how, it would've taken me a while to dig into it. Thanks much.

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