This bug was observed in Forte IDE build 1066 on  NT 4.0 with JDK 1.3

This is  tricky to reproduce this bug.

Add an empty directory to the file system for example : "c:\tmp\temp"
Convert it into a Web app module (J2ee) compliant by selecting menu item from "Tools->Convert File system into Web Module"
Select the file new File system created in previous step
From tools menu select " Tools-> Package War file"
Enter a new name for .war file
Observe the Zip file exception exception then try to access any menu item in tools menu and Observe the following exception.
Now IDE becomes unusable.

Pl. refer to Bug ID: 4356322



Tue Jul 25 16:06:25 PDT 2000java.lang.NullPointerException: null pData
java.lang.NullPointerException: null pData
        at sun.awt.windows.WInputMethod.handleNativeIMEEvent(Native
Method)
        at
sun.awt.windows.WInputMethod.dispatchEvent(WInputMethod.java:275)
        at sun.awt. customer .InputContext.dispatchEvent(InputContext.java:202)
        at
sun.awt. customer .InputMethodContext.dispatchEvent(InputMethodContext.java:177)

        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2529)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1213)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
        at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:2451)
        at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.trackMouseEnterExit(Container.java:2318)
        at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:2189)
        at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:2125)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1200)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:912)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:319)
        at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:103)
        at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)

The workaround around this bug is to call 

JMenu.enableInputMethods (false)

thus I think this is problem in AWT input methods. Please look at the sources:
http://www.netbeans.org/source/browse/openide/src/org/openide/awt/JMenuPlus.java?rev=1.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

This bug was present long time ago, perhaps only occured on release candidates of JDK 1.3?

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Duplicate of 4280243?
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2000-08-23

This seems to be a dup of 4280243
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2000-10-10

this is an actual bug with jmenus
see bug 4298592
forte was designed in java, thus having it's same 
problems... don't get me wrong... love java... just smoe 
bugs are bothersome.. hehe