URGENT BULLETIN: Disable JRE Auto-Update for All E-Business Suite End-Users

Urgent update sent out by Steven Chan, EBS Application Technology Director. His message is posted below

From: "Steven Chan"
Date: June 13, 2012 14:32:07 EDT
To: "Steven Chan"  
Subject: URGENT BULLETIN: Disable Java JRE Auto-Update for All E-Business Suite End-Users Immediately
Reply-To: 

All EBS desktop administrators must disable JRE Auto-Update for their end-users immediately. See this externally-published article:

• URGENT BULLETIN: Disable JRE Auto-Update for All E-Business Suite End-Users
  https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/bulletin_disable_jre_auto_update

Why is this required?

If you have Auto-Update enabled, your JRE 1.6 version will be updated to JRE 7.

• This may happen as early as July 3, 2012.
• This will definitely happen after Sept. 7, 2012, after the release of 1.6.0_35 (6u35).

Oracle Forms is not compatible with JRE 7 yet. JRE 7 has not been certified with Oracle E-Business Suite yet. Oracle E-Business Suite functionality based on Forms -- e.g. Financials -- will stop working if you upgrade to JRE 7.
Related News
Java 1.6.0_33 is certified with Oracle E-Business Suite. See this externally-published article:

• Java JRE 1.6.0_33 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/bulletin_disable_jre_auto_update

Distribution

• This email may be distributed to customers.

Regards,

Steven

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Steven Chan

Sr. Director, Applications Technology

Oracle E-Business Suite Development

E-Business Techstack Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan