[news.eclipse.technology.albireo] Re: More tips for the sample code

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

James Peltzer wrote:
> Gordon (or anyone),
> As you suspected, my workaround for the requestFocus deadlock issue is not a 
> solution 100% of the time.  In fact, lately the issue is happening 
> frequently enough to prevent my next software release.
>
> Have you any idea why I might be getting deadlock in 
> WComponentPeer._requestFocus when calling it from the AWT EDT after an 
> invokeLater from the SWT EDT?  I could really use some help with this one. 
> Naturally, as with most timing bugs, I don't really have a snipped that I 
> can post.

Could you post stack traces from the deadlocked JVM? They would be 
extremely helpful in diagnosing what the two EDTs (and possibly other 
threads) are doing at that point.