I was at a client’s site yesterday, and he had previously launched my solution (while it was in alpha) on his Windows XP box. However, I noticed that he had an older (1.5) version of Java, so I updated it on his machine. So far so good.
However, when I tried to relaunch the solution using the desktop shortcut, Servoy Smart Client launched, but it hanged at the message ‘Start repository’ in the lower left corner of the window. I don’t even get to the login screen - it just sits there doing nothing…
So I went along and did the following things, based on the instructions I found on the Forum:
Stopped Servoy Smart Client
Flushed the Java cache several times using the Control Panel app and deleted the Java applications and resources from that panel
Deleted the .servoy folder from the user’s Documents and Settings folder
Restarted the machine several times
Unfortunately, all these efforts did not allow me to solve my problem.
To convince myself of what was going on, I created a new User Profile (admin account) in WinXP - there the solution launched witout a hitch the first time (and all subsequent times)!
Can anyone point me to a way to resolve this situation? My client will not want to switch to another profile just to use his solution…
Unfortunately, (I forgot to mention that) I did that already, but still no cigar…
Any other clue? Is there something I can copy over from the working XP profile to the one that isn’t working (without affecting it in a bad way, of course)?
Now I remember - it was defined with the first option (‘Use browser settings’). Is this the only area I should check to make it work? The reason I ask is that this ‘Browser’ setting is the one I have on my own PC, and it works…
Using Direct Connection will make sure no other layer of complexity is added (since we are searching for the problem) but I am sure using browser settings will work too.
Also did you made sure that no firewall is blocking the connection?
Like I said before, the solution did work in alpha previous to my updating Java, so that’s why I’m a little stumped here (to say the least). And the problem doesn’t lie with that particular solution either - no other solution will load on that profile…