Oracle Jinitiator Version Too Low

[Lenora Rademacher]

Ihad this problem in Windows 7. I went to the control panel and clicked "Java (32-bit)". A window pops up called "Java control panel", I clicked the "Java" tab and the "view" button. A window pops up called "Java Runtime Environment Settings". On the user tab in my system I have two versions installed: Platform 1.6 and platform 1.7, I unticked the "enable" tick-box on Platform 1.7 and clicked "OK". I restarted my browser and was able to access the oracle forms. Hope that helps.

I had jdk 1.7.. due to this i was getting the error. Now I installed jdk 1.6 from _v6.jsp. and followd as above "I went to the control panel and clicked "Java (32-bit)". A window pops up called "Java control panel", I clicked the "Java" tab and the "view" button. A window pops up called "Java Runtime Environment Settings". On the user tab in my system I have two versions installed: Platform 1.6 and platform 1.7, I unticked the "enable" tick-box on Platform 1.7 and clicked "OK". I restarted my browser and was able to access the oracle forms"

in first place i have to log in on a web site ( This step was achieved )

After this step, i have to click on a link to launch a java window ( oracle forms ) which must be opened by java ( this version is jinitiator 1.3.1.22 ).

Viewed 1000+ timesYou Asked Hi Tom, been a while. Sorry to bother you with what seems like a dumb thing but here goes:

My friend has a book store. He wants to do something like interface a pda of somekind to a live connection to an oracle database so he can do stuff like inventory update on the fly.

Our problem is we can't get any response of our oracle support buddies on how to go about this. They can't even tell us if Oracle10g has a built in development tool for writing mobile apps ** eyes roll here **.

Can you point us in the right direction. Send us to some technical documents, recommend a book or two, or maybe give us a name of somebody to contact. Something that can tell us things like:

what programming languages can we use

what kind of developer skills are we going to need to find

how integrated is it with oracle10g

where can we get sample apps showing oracle integration

My search skills must be getting rusty or I am developing some kind of neural deficiency as the years pass because I have searched high and low for information and how tos and can't find squat.

Thanks, keep trucking, Kevin

and Tom said...There are three ways to do this (at least)

a) wireless

b) disconnected client/replication

c) put a cheap wifi card in the pda and just a tiny web interface (many of the wireless concepts in a) apply here for building the screens)

Hope this helps you get started. I'll publish so others who have built similar things can comment over time.

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Working for a school district which, like most school districts, doesn't have the funding to update their Oracle based financial systems that heavily rely on the old school JInitiator app. While the versions of JInitiator like 1.3.1.22 work fine in 32bit versions of Windows 7, there seems to be a problem on systems running the Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors where the JInitiator will load, but it won't refresh or repaint its windows. In our case, upon the initial load of the app, all we would get is a new IE window with a white page. If we resized the window or double clicked the title bar, it would repaint the screen, refreshing the content in the window. However, we would have to do that step every time we wanted something to happen in the window. Talk about a pain! We researched all sorts of stuff on it and found all sorts of weird fixes like "JIniator doesn't like multiple threads". Weird thing was, we had a Core i7 Quad Core machine running JInitiator on a 32bit Windows 7 without a problem. That had us scratching our heads... "What was different between the i3/i5 and i7 processors?" Well, the difference we found out, was the video. The i3 & i5 both had the new Intel HD Graphics controller whereas the Core i7 had a Nvidia GPU. I tried updating the Intel drivers to the latest and still no luck... Running across the specs of the computer, we noticed that the computers were advertised as having the "Intel HD Graphics with Dynamic Frequency Technology". That made me do some research to figure out what was so special about the Intel HD Graphics and what the heck "Dynamic Frequency" was. This ran me across the following whitepaper for the new Intel HD Graphics.

To save you some time from reading the whitepaper, I'll give you some background on the new iCore processors... Basically, Intel has moved the entire northbridge chip onto the processor. The northbridge in older computers was responsible for talking to the CPU, Memory, Video & Southbridge. Move that onto the processor and you get a blazing fast performance boost. In doing this, Intel has also followed AMD's footsteps by integrating their own GPU directly onto the die of select iCore CPUs (mainly i3 & i5), again providing much faster video performance and reducing overhead. "So what is this Dynamic Frequency?" To compliment their proprietary Turbo Boost technology which raises & lowers CPU frequency depending on CPU load, thus saving power, they have also included Dynamic Frequency which does basically the same thing for the GPU. It raises and lowers the speed of the GPU on the fly, to help conserve energy (longer lasting batteries, put smiles on tree huggers, etc.)

The fix is simple, believe it or not... You basically have to go into the power savings for Windows 7, edit the power plan and set the Intel Graphics to "Maximum Performance" which turns off the Dynamic Frequency.

If you have a computer that has it's own power saving software, I have no idea... You might have to do some playing... BUT, if you are using the stock Windows 7 power settings, you can do the following:

Update 2011/06/20: If the above isn't quite working out in your favor, you might try what was posted in the comments below regarding the manual input of some code to disable the drawing of jinitiator. (It basically shuts off the use of Direct Draw which was changed around quite a bit in Windows 7)

Take a look at RomanH's comment and see if it helps. There are several folks who have commented and said that this DOES work for them and one person mentioned restarting the computer after applying the fix before it worked. Unfortunately I have no easy way of creating a step-by-step process on how to apply the fix so hopefully what's posted below is enough to get you started on figuring it out.

Also...! Thanks to everyone who has posted comments on their fixes! I hate forums with a passion because everyone has the same problem but no one ever has a solid fix. I do my best to create a full proof fix for the problems I've run into on my blog and while the fix may have worked for me at the time, I'm not perfect either so I find it awesome when other's post the things that work for them and contribute to helping someone else. It makes searching for the problem in the future so much easier for everyone!

IF IT'S ANY HELP TO SOMEONE OUT THERE: I tried everything asides from trying a newer video driver. But what fixed it for me was to disable the video card in Device Manager (this makes the resolution massive) but then push the resolution back to your desired setting.

The refresh fix worked great on my HP Probook but now I cannot get Jinitiator 1.3.1.30 to work at all using Win 7 OS 64-bit on a HP 6000 machine. I changed the jvm.dll to ver 6 and still does not work. I think it is because the install cannot create the .jinit folder under users directory for the two files to write to when running JINITIATOR. This question may be better as a new post but I thought I would toss it out there to see if anyone has seen this issue and resolved it.

If all else fails, you can disable the Intel HD graphics driver from your device manager. In my tests, this results in perfectly functional Jinitiator forms, and still allows the system to use full screen resolution (1920x1024 in my case) and color depth. Any additional graphics features this method disables are unneeded in our environment =)

What a life and time saver this page... Thank you so much. If I had not found this page, I would only have noticed that the bug was showing up on certain generations of computer models, not on the older or the newer ones.

Hey frnd, Thank u so very much. Your provided fix did work for me.

I am very greatful to found this solution. Thanks again. May god bless u. Please keep up such good work.

Thanks again n again.

How do you implement this to all users on a machine.

Users that has still not yet logged on for the first time.

Is there a way to make them get this setting upon first time logon? "-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true"

Back in the XP days, there was a hidden user folder called "Default User". You would login as you, setup the profile how you wanted it, logout, login as an administrator, then copy your profile over the "Default User" profile. (or use the default profile tool in system properties -> users or something like that). Windows 7 is a new beast and I personally haven't had any experience in having to configure a profile to be blown down across multiple users...

i would like to thank you for giving me an idea for the solution of programs that i encounter regarding to oracle problem. its works to me. im only reading your advice. and follow the instruction. more power to you. godbless.

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