Swing Application stuck following Apple Java update 1.6.0_51

Question

We have a Java Swing client application. It\'s installed as a Java Web Start applet and as a install4j installer.
Since Apple released the latest Java 6 upgrade our appl

Answer 1

My experiences seem to agree with Mike C's; however I found that any reference to UIManager seems to break the application. Specifically, adding any properties to UIManager (used by Quaqua to configure various options) will break it, as will setting any look and feel via UIManager.

(Source: I am the author of Buddi (http://buddi.digitalcave.ca), and today I started to get multiple bug reports from users reporting this issue. By adding a flag to optionally disable all reference to UIManager, I have got it to work again, albeit losing all the nice Mac looks. Hopefully Apple will release a fix to this soon...)

Edit: thank you Sidney, that suggestion worked. Very much appreciated!