Specifying Java version on clients

[klozier]

OK, here is a fun question. We have Windchill PDMLink M062 in production. Our enterprise wants to push out Java 8 to the client devices which PTC does not support for our production Windchill. Some folks have mentioned that it is possable to specify in the JNLP or HTML for a web application which version of Java to run. Has anyone done this with Windchill? Of course the ticket I opened with PTC was answered with "Unfortunately it is not possible in windchill to do such settings".

Any thoughts would be helpful and thanks in advance.

Kelly Lozier

BMPC

[BrianGeary]

Starting with Java 7 update 51 you can specify a "deployment rule set" in a signed jar file. The Java plug-in will use the rule based on the site's URL and use the appropriate version of Java. We had all kinds of problems with our Java clients until using the deployment rule set... now that it's in place, we rarely have any issues with the applets.

Note that this is accomplished entirely within the client Java installation, there's nothing to configure in PDMLink.

Here's an example of an entry for Windchill:

<rule>




<id location="&lt;a" style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline&quot;=" target="_BLANK" href="http://pdm.mycompany.com"">http://pdm.mycompany.com" />
<action permission="run" version="1.7*"/">
</rule>


Brian Geary
Java Architect
Information Technology
hermanmiller.com

[klozier]

Thanks, I will try this out.

-Kelly