src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/LWCToolkit.m

@@ -741,13 +741,14 @@
 }
 
 JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL DEF_JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM *vm, void *reserved) {
     OSXAPP_SetJavaVM(vm);
 
-    // We need to let Foundation know that this is a multithreaded application, if it isn't already.
+    // We need to let Foundation know that this is a multithreaded application,
+    // if it isn't already.
     if (![NSThread isMultiThreaded]) {
-        [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:nil toTarget:nil withObject:nil];
+        [[[[NSThread alloc] init] autorelease] start];
     }
 
     return JNI_VERSION_1_4;
 }