Learn Discoverer Blog: Warning concerning Java 7 and E-Business Suite

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Warning concerning Java 7 and E-Business Suite

This notification is being posted at the request of Oracle Corporation

All E-Business Suite desktop administrators must disable the JRE Auto-Update for their end users immediately to stop it updating to Java 1.7.

URGENT BULLETIN: Disable JRE Auto-Update for All E-Business Suite End-Users.

The following link from my fellow blogger Steve Chan explains more:

https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/bulletin_disable_jre_auto_update

So why is this required?

If you have Auto-Update enabled, your JRE 1.6 version will be updated to JRE 7. This may happen as early as July 3, 2012. This will definitely happen after Sept. 7, 2012, after the release of 1.6.0_35 (6u35).

Oracle Forms is not compatible with JRE 7 yet. JRE 7 has not been certified with Oracle E-Business Suite yet. Oracle E-Business Suite functionality based on Forms -- e.g. Financials -- will stop working if you upgrade to JRE 7.

There is also a known issue with WebLogic 10.3.6 and JDK 1.7 and you must use JDK 1.6 for that. I will be posting shortly on this issue.

Seems to me therefore that until further notice, even for Discoverer, but definitely for E-Business Suite that you must stay on Java 1.6

4 comments:

Business Templates said...: This is certainly one of the most valuable posts. Great tips from beginning till end. Lots of suggestions for me and for people. Superb work; 11:37 AM
Patrick Bacon said...: Hi Michael,

It is good to see you blogging again. Anyways, for you and the people whom follow your blog, I suspect you probably saw this update to this issue:

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10407992&#10407992

Discoverer 11g is now compatible with JDK 1.7 (server-side) and / or JRE 1.7 plugin (client-side) with Patch 13877486

Patrick; 3:10 PM
java learning said...: nice sir . Keep the post coming . I am enjoying your blog; 12:27 PM
جافا said...: Thank You :); 12:33 AM

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Michael Armstrong-Smith

Michael is co-owner, CIO and principal consultant of Armstrong-Smith Consulting. He is the author of the Oracle Discoverer 10g Handbook. Armstrong-Smith specialize in everything Business Intelligence, including data warehouse and curriculum design. Michael is also the founder and owner of this blog and has over 25 years experience in applications development. He has presented at many conferences and is one of the founder members of Oracle's advisory board for business intelliegence. Appointed to be an Oracle ACE in 2006, Michael has been working in the Business Intelligence arena for over 12 years. Please contact me if you would like help with your BI installtion or are planning or implementing any BI initiative.