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Hello,

I've been investigating an issue that I am currently having on Windows (7 and 8) with drag and drop in Java 8.

The issue I'm having is when I drop a file from Windows explorer onto Netbeans the instance of Windows explorer from which I dragged the file freeze until I close Netbeans.

I could reproduce it on the simple TopLevelTransferHandlerDemo from the Java Tutorial \[1\].

After digging down the JDK8 code and comparing it to JDK7 code, I could find a change in sun.awt.dnd.SunDropTargetContextPeer.

Reverting the change fixed the issue.

Searching the Mercurial repo \[2\] for changes in SunDropTargetContextPeer showed that the change was introduced last June \[3\].

Since it is platform dependent and a fix to another issue, I am unsure at what I can do more.

\[1\] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/dnd/TopLevelTransferHandlerDemoProject/src/dnd/TopLevelTransferHandlerDemo.java
\[2\] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/summary
\[3\] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/8326709c6315

Thanks in advance,

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Ludovic
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