Focus Lost - Sticky Cursor

Hi folks,
When using 10gRel2 we get a lot of 'focus lost' problems. I read all threads here and in metalink; this problem is a very serious one and in some cases hard to reproduce. at least 10 different situation causes different focus lost situations.
Oracle has concentrated that issue in the base bug 5358366.
The fix for the focus lost problems will be implemented in JRE 1.5.0_9 which is currently not available at SUN. Nevertheless, has anybody received that internal version for testing? What's your experience?
Thanks, werner

Hi kndwds,
Would be very interested in sharing some information re your Focus Lost question. We have had very similar issues in all versions of Forms (and occassionally have managed to create test cases) resulting in a number of patches. In 10.1.2 and the Sun JVM, the issue is very much worse, but currently we can not reproduce a repeatable test case.
I have reviewed all the bugs, but this does not provide much meaningful information.
Can you provide any update on the situation with your TAR, and if at all possible, full details of the test case that you have been able to provide.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards
Marc Ludwig

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