From talking with my friends at  xxxxx  and from poking around in the code
I believe I have found a problem in CJavaJNI.cpp.

The routine:

jint CJavaJNI::JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs(JavaVM **vmp, jsize bufLen ,jsize *nVMS) {
  JVM_GETCREATED proc;
  proc =(JVM_GETCREATED) GetProcAddress(m_hMod, "JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs");
  return proc != 0 ? (*proc)(vmp, bufLen, nVMS) : -1;
  }

uses the variable `m_hMod', which is not set (it is an auto variable).

So, my idea is to set `m_hMod' in `LoadJavaVM'.

If you start the JVM from jpishare.dll you will not see this
problem. This might explain why we have gone so far without running
into this yet.

N/A

If the jvm.dll is not loaded by java plug-in, one of the member variable will not be set. Even if we fix this problem, in such scenarios, plug-in specific run time parameters and other initialization will not be done and hence there is no guarantee that the applet works.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-05-16