JavaFX application with an ImageIO call on a thread other than JavaFX Application Thread hangs on Mac OS X

Question

Consider I have a sample JavaFX application which updates its UI with an image read from the application\'s JAR, and does so in a delayed manner (i.e. the image is pain

Answer 1

The above behaviour seems to be a bug in the Mac OS X implementation of Oracle JDK -- the problem shows up only with Java 1.8.0, I was unable to reproduce it against either Java 9.0.4 or 10.0.2.