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November 9, 2012
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Arbortext's Documentum/WDK Adapter 6.0 vs. IE8: Java not available to Adapter

  • November 9, 2012
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Hiya,
Has anyone resolved an issue where the Documentum WDK adapter can't see
Java? I have Editor 6.0 m010 with the WDK Adapter. IE8 is has Java 6_0_33
and works fine with Webtop (well, not fine, I had to jiggle the handle a
bit ... the Java "addon" was present but not quite "right" ... I'm not 100%
sure what I did that enabled it within IE8 but it works now).

I can navigate in the WDK Adapter, but checkout or anything that fires off
the content transfer services fails. I can right-click within the Adapter,
select All Accelerators > Manage Accelerators and then change the Add-on
Types to Toolbars and Extensions (which is where Java shows up) but I do
not see Java in the list. It's not present. In "plain" Internet Explorer
(now that I've jiggled the handle) it displays Java when I look at Toolbars
and Extensions.

I have closed/re-opened Editor. I guess I'll try rebooting, but I don't
think that's it. I'm on Windows 7.

Am I missing something obvious?

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Paul Nagai

    6 replies

    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 9, 2012
    Thanks XXXX,

    I tried adding
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\lib\javaws.jar

    to the system environment variable CLASSPATH but that did not change the
    behavior I was seeing. It's interesting you were able to replicate the
    error I am seeing, but that the fix that worked for you didn't work for me.

    (XXXX sent me an off-list suggestion that should be clear from my reply. I
    replied on-list but omitted their e-mail which contained screen caps of
    potentially internal info. Hopefully I actually did that. The new GMail
    Compose dialog (and/or the the large screen caps) are causing my page to
    format oddly).

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    Paul Nagai
    17-Peridot
    November 9, 2012
    Paul,

    I thought of a couple more things. Are you on a 64bit machine and is that where your java is installed?

    Brian
    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 10, 2012
    Yes. 64bit
    Yes. Java is here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6



    17-Peridot
    November 10, 2012
    Paul,

    So I went back to double check myself. Turns out that fixed the 5.4 version on that machine but not the 6.0 version on the machine. So I what I found out 6.0 is using the 64bit version of the browser because I installed the 64bit version of editor. I bet if you were to install the 64bit version of Java or the 32bit version of editor it would probably work.


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    Here is one more confirmation. This is the error I get in the x64bit version of IE.

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    Brian

    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 12, 2012
    Thanks, Brian. As soon as your questions teased out the 64bit system/32bit
    Java path, I was thinking along the same lines you followed below. I have a
    32bit Java, 32bit Internet Explorer, and a 64bit Editor. I'm thinking the
    happy path is going to be backing out Editor and reinstalling the 32bit
    version. (Probably up-bit-ing the other pair would work for this situation
    but create compatibility/support issues on into the future with my
    "Approved Enterprise Image" and its components.)

    Will report back when I get a chance to swap the install. Might be a bit.
    Other fires a-burning this week.


    naglists1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 12, 2012
    Switching to the 32bit version of Editor resolved this issue. (Thought I
    wasn't going to get there today, but something else drove me to it.) Thanks
    all!