Documentum 6.7 sp1 with JRE 1.7u40 ?

Hi,

Is Documentum webtop 6.7 Sp1 compatible with JRE 1.7u40. As per release notes the JRE version mentioned is 1.6.0_27. Is it advisable to install JRE 1.7u40 ?

Any expereinces using JRE 1.7u40 wiht webtop 6.7 sp1 ?

Thanks

Jay

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PanfilovAB

According to release notes 6.7SP1P19 does officially support 1.7u25:

New Compatibility Status	Product Release	Effective Patch Release
Compatible	Oracle JRE 7.0 Update 25	Patch 19
Compatible	Oracle JRE 7.0 Update 15	Patch 14
Compatible	Oracle JRE 7.0 Update 11	Patch 12
Compatible	Oracle JRE 6.0 Update 37	Patch 10
Compatible	Oracle JRE 6.0 Update 33	Patch 06

If you want official support of 1.7u40 you should wait some time - EMC provided me a document named "Browser JRE Support Policy" that states following:

Oracle JRE versions:

Proposal:

To support the JRE security updates in patches on a quarterly basis
If we have a JRE security update 3 months before a Documentum major or minor(SP) release we will support it with the Documentum major or minor(SP)release.

Justification:

Due to security updates from Oracle, financial customers need to meet PCI compliance. The remaining customers must use the latest update to meet the industry security standards which force them to be on the latest Java security update.

Caveat:

If issues are found that require engineering fixes, Engineering will provide an ETA for the required fixes and that would push out the target date for certification completion.

Note that corresponding CS releases (i.e. 6.7SP1P19 and 6.7SP1P20) are unstable and not production ready.

Elliott

There is an issue that was introduced with JRE 1.7u21: From the Java Release notes, 1.7 Update 21 contains the following change: Changes to Security DialogsAs of JDK 7u21, JavaScript code that calls code within a privileged applet is treated as mixed code and warning dialogs are raised if the signed JAR files are not tagged with the Trusted-Library attribute. This caused a pop-up every time the users went into Webtop on a PC with JRE 1.7. This was identified as a Defect WEBTOP-27321. We got a hot fix for 6.7SP1 P10 Webtop. We never rolled out JRE 1.7, because of other issues with the JRE. I don't know if this was included in a later patch. I would strongly suggest doing lots of testing before rolling out JRE 1.7.