Metro Timetables Defeated By Java

Commuters heading for Airport and St James trains were treated to pure nostalgia when a lovely Java application error dialogue hijacked the digital departure boards on the Tyne and Wear Metro. The unhelpful popup effectively blinded public transit signage, proving once again that running critical infrastructure on fragile legacy desktop runtime dependencies is a masterstroke. Shielding transit networks from such public embarrassment requires ditching archaic desktop runtimes, but why modernise when you can display error boxes instead?