[vtkusers] java problems (swing)

[matthias specht]

hello,
I'm having problems with java and vtk on linux.
the problem is that just importing the shared library "vtkRenderingJava" 
causes my java program to crash. In the java-program I create a JFrame, 
and it seems as soon as I call JFrame.pack() it crashes (see attached 
file hs_err_pid14620.log). Even if I don't use any vtk class at all!

I searched the vtkuser mailinglist archive and found two old posts:
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2002-September/063145.html
http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2003-May/067266.html
they describe a similar problems I think and the proposed hack helped me 
as well: I put the static system.loadLibrary() - block into a subclass 
of JFrame and it didn't crash anymore - at least not on startup. it now 
crashes on exit....quite a progress but still I'm not happy :)
(see attached file hs_err_pid10760.log)

you find details about my system below.

I would be very very happy if somebody could point out the source of the 
problems I'm having. It seems many other people are struggling with the 
same problem.
I just started developing a large application with java/vtk - and I'm a 
bit worried now how good this  two team up...it seems it's not easy to 
integrate vtkPanel into a Swing GUI....ist there any documentation about 
this available (I checked both VTK books already) or can somebody tell 
me about his/her experiences?

thanx a lot

matthias


plattforms: gentoo 2004 (same on redhat 8.0, kernel 2.4.20)
sun-jdk 1.4.2.04 & 1.4.2.05
vtk 4.2


bash-2.05b$ uname -a
Linux pinga 2.6.7-gentoo-r9 #1 Mon Jul 12 15:02:25 MEST 2004 i686 
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux



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