Workbench Issues with New Java Version JRE 1.8

[Former Member]

Hello All,

My company is very proactive on keeping java up to date and updates our version a couple times a year.  We are currently on JRE 7.55 and now testing JRE 1.8.  With each update of our java version, we are seeing more security warnings when opening up the workbench.  Though with version 1.8, we can no longer open up the workbench and get the error "Unable to launch the application" and "Missing required Permissions manifest in attribute in main jar:"   We have faced java issues before, because of our many updates (http://scn.sap.com/thread/3500510), but had a a work around.  This time I don't see a work around.  Has anyone else ran into this issue or a similar one? 

Currently we are using MII 14.0 SP 0 Patch 6

Thanks,

George

[Former Member]

George,

Oracle introduced some new security features in JAVA 1.7 and JAVA 1.8.  One of the methods to overcome this issue is to add the URL to the JAVA Exception Site List.  This is a "work around" and I have seen various SAP Notes where the issue was resolved by either a component update or updating the kernel.

Unfortunately we hit this issue in our CRM landscape and have applied SPS 8 and updated the kernel to 742_REL patch 211 and none of these efforts resolved the situation.  I have opened an incident with SAP and its currently in BC-FES-ITS.  We are not interested in deploying the work around to thousands of desktops.

Cheers,

Dan Mead

[shaji_chandran]

You may run the below command at bin folder of your java installation directory

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_40\bin>javaws http://hostname:50000/XMII/Workbench.jsp

[Former Member]

Dear George,

Recently we faced similar issue for IE 10.You can try below steps:

1) Assuming IE is default browser ,add SAP MII site to trusted sites in IE ->Internet options - Security.

2)Now add SAP MII site in IE -> Tools -> Compatibility view Settings - >Add you site.

3)Under control panel -> Java->Security -> Add your site to exception list .

4) You can try to open workbench using direct url - http://<Sever>:<port> /XMII/Workbench.jsp.

Thanks

Mrugank Patel

[Former Member]

Hi George,

You can try this.I am not sure whther it will work with the latest version of JRE but in the past it did work.

1. Reduce the security level in the Java(Control Panel) and the delete the temporary internet files.
2. Close all the instances of IE and re-login into MII and launch the Workbench.

Regards,

Muddassar