AWT Eventthread is started during RHDS startup ---------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-547 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-547 Project: JBoss Tools Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: ExadelStudioPro4 Reporter: Max Andersen Assigned To: Viacheslav Kabanovich Priority: Critical Because of this line: private static JPanel dummy = new JPanel(); in org.jboss.tools.common.model.util.IconUtil the AWT EventThread is started up which result in 2 unecessary things: 1) The AWT-thread is running for monitoring various (non-used i supposed) events 2) if your resolution changes NullPointerExceptions occur like this: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment.displayChanged(Win32GraphicsEnvironment.java:109) at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit$4.run(WToolkit.java:698) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110) Why is a Dummy panel even needed just for creating images ?!