[FELIX-2610] WebConsole doesn't work with JDK 1.3.1_06 because of problem in MessageFormat

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: webconsole-3.1.2
• Fix Version/s: webconsole-3.1.6
• Component/s: Web Console
• Environment: Sun JDK 1.3.1_06, Windows
• Assignee: Valentin Valchev
• Reporter: Valentin Valchev
• Created: 21/Sep/10 15:13
• Updated: 09/Nov/10 09:46
• Resolved: 23/Sep/10 13:03

Description

When running webconsole with JDK 1.3.1 it generates internal server error when opened from browser and it is completely unusable. In the logs the following exception is added:

Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument number too large at
        at java.text.MessageFormat.makeFormat(MessageFormat.java:795)
        at java.text.MessageFormat.applyPattern(MessageFormat.java:318)
        at java.text.MessageFormat.<init>(MessageFormat.java:248)
        at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:475)
        at org.apache.felix.webconsole.AbstractWebConsolePlugin.startResponse(AbstractWebConsolePlugin.java:548)
        at org.apache.felix.webconsole.AbstractWebConsolePlugin.doGet(AbstractWebConsolePlugin.java:141)
        at org.apache.felix.webconsole.internal.core.BundlesServlet.doGet(BundlesServlet.java:275)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:702)

Obviously, older JDK has some problems with MessageFormat. A simple workaround is to use our variable resolver instead of MessageFormat. IMHO using the variable resolver is even better because now we do 2 kinds of pre-processing of the HTML - first via the message formatter and second - with the variable resolver.

So WDYT?