AppContext is null from rmi thread with Java 7 Update 25
We recently updated to Java 7 Update 25 from Update 21 and are now experiencing a null pointer exception when SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread() is called from an rmi thread becuase AppContext.getAppContext() is returning null. java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.SunToolkit.getSystemEventQueueImplPP(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.SunToolkit.getSystemEventQueueImplPP(Unknown Source) at sun.awt.SunToolkit.getSystemEventQueueImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Toolkit.getEventQueue(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.isDispatchThread(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.SwingUtilities