WebView js-java bridge error

Question

I've been trying to run the WebViewSample from this page in Netbeans but get the following exception when it tries to call javafx from javascript *i.e. when you click the link to exit the help screen)
Exception in thread "JavaFX Application Thread" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: booleanValue
     at com.sun.webpane.webkit.JSObject.setMemberImpl(Native Method)
     at com.sun.webpane.webkit.JSObject.setMember(JSObject.java:37)
I'm using jdk1.7.0_06 (which includes the javafx runtime) on Ubuntu 12.04. I get the same exception when I try the sample on my macBookPro.
Should the sample work ? Any idea of how I might fix this ?
Thanks
Allan

Answer 1

Should the sample work ? Any idea of how I might fix this ? Checking jira I noted:
http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-22725 "JS2Java Bridge arrays and other parts of JS2Java Bridge do not work on Linux"
Which generates the same error message and stack trace as that in your post.
Looks like the error has been fixed and will be available in javafx 2.2b17.
The sample does work for me (runs and does not throw exception) on Windows - I think the bug was Linux/Mac related only.
My environment is:
java.runtime.version=1.7.0_06-ea-b17
javafx.runtime.version=2.2.0-beta-b16
WindowsXP
Loading the project up in NetBeans 7.1.2 generated a message that it was upgrading the project and getting it to build correctly was problematic (NetBeans couldn't find jfxrt.jar probably due to the old project format or a version of NetBeans predating the co-bundling of JavaFX and the JDK). So I just went to command line and ran ant to build the project from there and then it built fine. After that, I followed the test steps you described and everything worked ok with no exception printed.
Edited by: jsmith on Jul 12, 2012 4:27 PM
Updated answer based on finding related known issue in Jira.