Oracle E-Business Suite and Java Web Start. Finally!
Great things always happen overnight. That's probably the case for European Oracle Apps DBAs in the same situation, like myself. This morning I read Steven Chan's latest
blog post about Java Web Start certification with Oracle E-Business Suite and its support release to the public. We heard about it during some informal discussions at Collaborate 17 conference. Everything is ready, the documentation is prepared, and they are just waiting for final bug related to Workflow Activity Monitor to be addressed... ...and about twenty days later, it was released. This is a superb evolutionary event! And, of course, I made time to fit in some good introductory, hands-on experience.
Initial thoughts while going through Doc ID 2188898.1
1. Java Runtime version for client.- JRE 8 Update 131 b31 or JRE 8 Update 121 b33 are required (as a minimum). This isn't clearly visible - these are special update releases (look at b31 and b33), available only through My Oracle Support download via Patch 25767257 and 25450542. A public release containing the support is only scheduled for next quarter and is set to be released with Update 141.
- JRE 6 and JRE 7 are out of scope! If you don't have JRE 8 support there in your system, now is the right time to think about it.