Upgrade Sun JRE (Native Plug-in) for Windows Clients in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Upgrade Sun JRE (Native Plug-in) for Windows Clients in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Oracle recommends that Oracle E-Business Suite 12 customers move to the latest and therefore most secure certified version of the Sun JRE Native Plug-in on either stream (JRE 5.0.x or JRE 6.0.x).

1. Check Version.

D:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl>grep plugin %CONTEXT_FILE%
[!-- JDK plugins --]
[sun_plugin_ver oa_var="s_sun_plugin_ver"]1.5.0_13[/sun_plugin_ver]


2.Download the JRE Plug-in Interoperability Patch

Download the JRE Plug-in Oracle E-Business Suite interoperability patch 4377566

3.Download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 plug-in from

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Select the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update X ( where X is the current latest version)
Download the Windows Offline Installation version of the Plug-in.
If an earlier version of the JRE 6 Plug-in is required, it can be downloaded from the Sun archive site from http://java.sun.com/products/archive/ .

Select the required release from the drop down menu under, Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) -> JDK/JRE - 6 .
Select the Download JRE.
Download the Windows Offline Installation, Multi-language version of the Plug-in.

4.Rename the JRE 6 Plug-in

Rename the downloaded JRE Native Plug-in file from jre-6_uxx-windows-i586-p.exe to j2se160xx.exe

(Where xx = the version number. Using jre-6_u13-windows-i586-p.exe as an example this would be j2se16013.exe).

5.Place the JRE 6 Plug-in on Web Application Tier

Move the j2se1600X.exe file to the web application tier and place it in %[COMMON_TOP]%\webapps\oacore\util\jinitiator..

6.Stop Apps or Shutdown Apache

Shutdown Apache (on normal mode) by running adapcctl.sh stop or by running adstpall.sh /

7.Enable 'Maintenance Mode' from adadmin

Enable 'Maintenance Mode' from adadmin, (Select menu option 5 > Change Maintenance Mode >Select menu option 1 > Enable Maintenance Mode)

7.Apply the patch driver in the interop patch using AutoPatch.

Apply the patch 4377566

8.Run the txkSetPlugin.cmd Script

Run the %FND_TOP%\bin\txkSetPlugin.cmd script against the web application tier node.

txkSetPlugin.cmd [appsora_path] [apps_pwd] [jversion]

9.Disable 'Maintenance Mode' through adadmin

Disable 'Maintenance Mode' from adadmin, (Select menu option 5 > Change Maintenance Mode > Menu option 2 > Disable Maintenance Mode)

10.Restart Apache or Start Apps

Restart Apache (on normal mode) by running adapcctl.sh start or adstrtal.sh /

txkSetPlugin.cmd D:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl\APPSSIT_sitartha.cmd xxxxxx 16013

11.Check version Now.
D:\oracle\PROD\inst\apps\SIT_sitartha>grep plugin %CONTEXT_FILE%
[!-- JDK plugins --]
[sun_plugin_ver oa_var="s_sun_plugin_ver"]1.6.0_13[/sun_plugin_ver]