Java Hot Spot Errors

What am I to do with the Hot Spot Error messages that are put on my desktop when the Java Machine fails when I go into the IWin Game site? Are they to be reported to someone and if they are to whom am I to report them to?Thanks to anyone who knows what to do with them.
[283 byte] By [yenwina] at [2007-10-1 16:33:32]
# 1

If you search Java's bug database and verify that the problem hasn't already been reported, then you can fill out a bug report. (And delete them if desired.) Don't report anything unless you're pretty sure it's never been reported.

Otherwise, if you aren't going to report or use them, you can delete them.

ChuckBinga at 2007-7-11 0:52:46 > top of Java-index,Developer Tools,Debugging and Profiling Tool APIs...
# 2

You can try to post the stuff here, but our ability to really help if you are on MS Windows is limited because most of the symbol information are left out of the shipping Java binaries and because if the problem is not Java then there are a large number of "other" possibilities.

Here are some cases I have tried to help on:

Success in helping

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=600001

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=635040

Failure in helping

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=606263

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=608027

Original poster not helped, but somebody else was helped:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=600001

You could look through these lists and see if anything looks familiar:

http://www.google.com/search?q=iexplore.exe+applet+crash+site:forum.java.sun.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=iexplore.exe+java+crash+site:forum.java.sun.com

Also, here a tool I threw together to try to decode those ugly error codes if you can see one of those:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=509692

So the problem could be:

1. The applet exercises a Java bug, which may or may not be in the bug database

2. You IE has something added, a filter or toolbar, that is helping to cause the problem

3. You system has some problem, like the video card driver

It can get pretty difficult to even try to understand what the problem might be, let alone finding a fix for it, but you might get lucky.

amorrow@earthlink.neta at 2007-7-11 0:52:46 > top of Java-index,Developer Tools,Debugging and Profiling Tool APIs...
# 3

Oh, my thoughts were trailing off there for a moment. If you have a Hot Spot Error, then you will have a short log and an error code.

You can post the log, but you can also just take the first step by upgrading your JRE or JDK. I recommend just going to the lastest version of JDK 1.4 or the latest version of JDK 1.5 . Those are the most mature and Sun does steadily make progress fixing Hot Spot bugs.

amorrow@earthlink.neta at 2007-7-11 0:52:46 > top of Java-index,Developer Tools,Debugging and Profiling Tool APIs...