For those of you that experience a crippled java installation or at least a continuing issue with jws (like I had) I finally solved it by doing the following (OS 10.:
Recover Java Preferences app from Time Machine (or any other backup you have)
Install Java 1.7. Manually install Java 1.6 from the .pkg file (or use an app like Pacifist) that you can download from the Apple website.
And voila, I can now run all my java versions again and jws works (for me miraculously) with Java 1.7 now.
Did not test with Servoy though but this is already much more than what I could use before
If it is true what the Finalcut guys think what happend (“Apple seems to have patched java though the backdoor and that keeps FinalCutServer from launching the Webstart application”), it makes me think: isn’t it a bit scary that you use a computer where the manufacturer simply disables stuff without your knowledge and agreement by some calling home or however this is done? Not sure I want that.
I understand that if you want a more permanent solution (for the time being) you can prevent the plist file to be updated by unchecking the following checkbox.
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You go to System preferences > Security & Privacy > Advanced. Here you can uncheck the ‘Automatically update safe downloads list’.
This should prevent the XProtect.meta.plist to be updated again.
patrick:
If it is true what the Finalcut guys think what happend (“Apple seems to have patched java though the backdoor and that keeps FinalCutServer from launching the Webstart application”), it makes me think: isn’t it a bit scary that you use a computer where the manufacturer simply disables stuff without your knowledge and agreement by some calling home or however this is done? Not sure I want that.
Mac OS X is indeed calling home. XProtect automatically updates it’s definitions and with last nights update it told the OS that minimum version of Java has to be 1.6.0_37-b06-435. So I guess there is a Java update coming since at this time the current version is 1.6.0_37-b06-434.
weird so they say you need to use 2 version of java 6 and java 7 that are just 1 build higher then what we have now (so micro version upgrade) (i think i was never able to do a micro upgrade from sun or oracle its those updates do _11 ->_12 not _11.build 8 → _11 build 9)
if they disable only the browser java plugin that doesn’t matter, but i don’t hope that they see java webstart as the same thing.
On windows if you just kill the Java Plugin for browsers that doesn’t matter for WebStart apps. Thats just for applets.
jcompagner:
weird so they say you need to use 2 version of java 6 and java 7 that are just 1 build higher then what we have now (so micro version upgrade) (i think i was never able to do a micro upgrade from sun or oracle its those updates do _11 ->_12 not _11.build 8 → _11 build 9)
I think it’s just to mark anything higher than version x, whatever that new version might be. Also this will not block any intermediate builds that developers might have.
jcompagner:
if they disable only the browser java plugin that doesn’t matter, but i don’t hope that they see java webstart as the same thing.
On windows if you just kill the Java Plugin for browsers that doesn’t matter for WebStart apps. Thats just for applets.
patrick:
it makes me think: isn’t it a bit scary that you use a computer where the manufacturer simply disables stuff without your knowledge and agreement by some calling home or however this is done? Not sure I want that.
Isn’t it scary that Apple waited so long before completely blocking Java?
I wonder if people at Oracle, or any one else for that matter, still know their way through the Java source code.
Harjo:
We have the following suggestion for Oracle’s new Java setup screen!
Actually these 3 Billions probably don’t even contain Apple’s bulk, there’s a lot more Java-powered devices than that @seehttp://www.java.com/en/about/
