JDK-4836169 : Insufficient JRE update releases for auto-download
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 1.0.1,1.2.0,1.3.1,1.4.2
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic,windows_98,windows_2000
  • CPU: generic,x86
  • Submitted: 2003-03-21
  • Updated: 2014-02-27
  • Resolved: 2006-08-22
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Description
Currently the we only have JRE 1.3.0_02, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 for auto-download via Java Web Start.

Customers are requesting badly for the avaliabilty of auto-download for other update releases, as update releases contain important bug fixes for them.

See the attached email from NTT data:

From: Hiroshi TOKUDA <###@###.###>
To: ###@###.###
Subject: Java Web Start Feedback - <###@###.###>
Name: Hiroshi TOKUDA

E-mail Address:	###@###.###
General:	Dear Java Web Start Team

Now we are developing a G2C application for a 
certain Ministry of Japan. We adopt Java 
Application (with Java Web Start) as the platform 
for our application.

We plan to use an excellent function of the Java 
Web Start which enables us to designate a specific 
JDK version for our application in a JNLP 
configuration file. It emancipates us developers 
from problems caused by the variety of JDK 
versions installed on the client machines.

We would like to take advantage of the function 
that automatically installs corresponding version 
of JDK on Windows clients if they don't have the 
version of JDK.

For several reasons such as surrounding systems 
and existing libraries, we have no choice but to 
select JDK 1.3 series as the version written 
above.

We tried using automatic download function and 
found that JRE 1.3 was successfully downloaded. 
We, however, found a problem on JRE minor version 
here.

Though we expect Java Web Start to install JRE 
1.3.1_07, JRE 1.3.1_02 is downloaded from Sun site 
now. 

Because our application will diffuse JDK to many 
and unspecified clients, and older releases of JRE 
1.3.1 have significant security halls that will 
cause serious problems in the future, we hope that 
latest minor version of JRE 1.3 will be 
downloaded.

Security savant Dr. Hiromitsu Takagi who has ever 
officially denounced several governmental systems 
for security halls also pay attention to Java Web 
Start. We appreciate if you could kindly accept 
our request to update the JRE versions to provide 
more quality and convenience.

Sincerely
Platform:	Win2000	WinXP-Professional-Edition
Browser:	IE6
JRE version:	JRE1.3.1_07
JRE1.4.1_01
JNLP location:	none
Error messages:	none
Instructions to reproduce the problem:	Normal x86 arch machine

Comments
EVALUATION under investigation. ###@###.### 2003-03-21 JRE 1.3.1_08 is available for auto-download via Java Web Start now. ###@###.### 2003-06-20 This bug is for JavaWebstart AutoDownload, Tiger timeframe, but no tied to Tiger release. Uncommitted from Tiger. ###@###.### 2003-10-07 Now 1.4.2 & 1.4.2_01 are also available for download.
07-10-2003