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Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 10, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

Specify ACS Java JRE location

Give the option to specify the Java JRE home path. Or dynamically search for the latest/highest? package.

When 2/multiple packages are in the startup location (Example: jre1.8.0_121 and jre1.8.0_191, it will use the 121 release), we'd want it to choose the 191 release.

(We don't want to kill all running Java services and remove the "old" directory as it could interrupt other applications)


Use Case:

The application does not grab the latest JRE package when multiple packages are in the Java home path directory. This is needed for the latest features and bug fixes.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 4, 2019

    There are several ways to control which version of Java is being used:
    1. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the root path of where Java is installed. Then launch ACS.
    2. Launch ACS using the command line and specify the path to a version of Java using the -vm parameter. The following example assumes a version of Java exists at C:\JDKVersion\jdk8_191_64:
    Start_Programs\Windows_x86-64\acslaunch_win-64.exe -vm C:\JDKVersion\jdk8_191_64
    3. Provide a JRE along side the acslaunch*.exe. For additional information on this option see section "Optional JRE deployment" in the article "IBM i Access Client Solutions: Customization and deployment made easy" available at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-ibmi-access-client-solutions-customization-trs/index.html

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 18, 2018

    You can copy a JRE into a the ACS directory, in a subdirectory named named jre, and the native executable will use that.

    Then the whole ACS functionality is portable and isn't dependent on any user installed java software.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 11, 2018

    I agree. Either ACS should use the latest most package installed, or we should be given the option to configure this. Even though a config file would be better than nothing.

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