Yosemite and Marvin sketch 6.2.2 crashes

Hi there,

We are running Marvin Sketch 6.2.2 applet on our web sites, and one of our customers is reporting intermittent applet crashes.

 

"I am using a MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.1. I have replicated the problem in Firefox (version 34.0.5), Chrome (version 39.0.2171.95) and Safari (version 8.0.2).I am currently running Java Version 8 Update 25"

We have not had any reports of crashes on other platforms, however most of our user base uses PCs.

I have seen your other post to the forun regarding Yosemite. 

https://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic13412.html

Thanks,

Megan

 

HI Megan,

I could reproduce the issue with Firefox 35 but not with Chrome 40.0.2214.91 (64-bit) or Safari.

I've used the newest Java 8u31 which was released this week.

We will investigate this issue further.

Best regards,

Peter

Hi Megan,

as a guess can you please try to modify the applet parameters, and add a separate_jvm parameter with value true?

You can do it with the help of msketch_param("separate_jvm", "true) and mview_param("separate_jvm", true) methods if you are using marvin.js library to embed the applet into the HTML page.

The reason that might help, is that the MarvinView and MarvinSketch together can mess up the initialization due to static values, and these are almost impossible to track down, and it is hard to eliminate these cases, but if the two applet does not run in the same Java virtual machine, then this could not happen.

Regards,
Istvan