Recoverpoint Java (Eclipse) applet launch issues with JSE 7 Update 45

Hi,

Our customer is still running a pretty old version of Recoverpoint still: 3.3 SP2 P2

But I was wondering if this issue was also effecting later versions of the recoverpoint applet.

Since java 7 update 45 (released 15 Oct 2013), the applet will no longer launch at all, even after setting the Java security to medium.

When I run a trace, I see the following exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException: No application id has been found.

  at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppContainer.startDefaultApp(EclipseAppContainer.java:236)

  at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.MainApplicationLauncher.run(MainApplicationLauncher.java:29)

  at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)

  at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)

  at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)

  at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)

  at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)

  at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.WebStartMain.basicRun(WebStartMain.java:79)

  at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)

  at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.WebStartMain.main(WebStartMain.java:57)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)

  at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)

  at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)

  at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

according to this thread: Java 7 u45 Web Start application won't launch | Oracle Forums the problem is (and I quote) "that 7u45 will not transport "insecure" properties to the application unless the JNLP is signed, so the OSGi framework did not get its bundle-list, instance-area and a bunch of other stuff.

Now I am not a developer of any sort. But am I correct in assuming that its not likely there is a way around this? As it requires a re-jigging of the applet itself?

Our current workaround is to keep a bunch of our management servers at JSE 7U40 for now.

But my more immediate question is this: Does this issue effect any newer versions of the Recoverpoint applets?

In other words: will a recommendation to our customer to upgrade their gen4 RPA's to the latest RP version, solve this problem?