Thinapp Java 1.6.0_45 with IE9 - Anyone achieved this?

[JMcCutcheon]

Hi all

So my ultimate goal here is to have a thinapp version of JRE 6 running in native IE9. I'm using Thinapp 5.0 and am capturing on Win 7 (trying both x86 and x64). Target deployment OS is Win 7 x64. I have been following this guide [1] with this update [2] as it seems to be the latest guidance on the matter. It seems like he's using IE7 or 8, though. I've captured the Java install, made the recommended modifications (and added the iexplore entry point manually) and have it at a point where I can run in on a clean Win7 x64 machine (ie. no native Java). IE9 launches fine and is usable as a browser. When I view the installed plugins I have three ActiveX plugins and the two SSV helpers. Using java -version on the commandline also verifies that Java is installed. However, if I open any page with a Java webapp it gives the Java loading symbol, the bar progresses half way, and then it freezes, crashes, or displays a simple error message, which upon clicking, freezes, so I can't get any appreciable error logs or stack traces out of it.

I've tried older versions of Java 1.6, tried following the guides, not following the guides, enabling and disabling various combinations of the 5 plugins, capturing on x86, capturing on x64, opening and running a webapp during the capture, and while it might change the nature of the crash/free, nothing has allowed the webapp to load. I'm using x86 version of Java, and using javatester.org and the Oracle Java testing webpage as my test webapps.

Basically, has anyone succeeded in this, or found a workaround? The client will not use 1.7 as their software vendors will not support anything other than 1.6, and they are not happy with the idea of virtualising IE or installing 1.6 natively. If anyone knows of a definitive source stating this this not possible, I'd be eternally grateful. I'm, about to head home now and will check back in the morning (around 23:00 GMT) to see if anyone has some wisdom for me.

Thanks

James

[1] Step by Step Instructions on How to ThinApp Newer Java Versions | VMware ThinApp Blog - VMware Blogs

[2] Java 1.6 Tweaks | VMware ThinApp Blog - VMware Blogs

[Pman201110141]

The step by step guide you pointed to is a good reference. I've followed that as well and captured Java 7 Update 25. It worked out pretty well so far as a proof of concept. My goal was this:

1. Uses' computers will have latest versions of Java installed.

2. The standard browser is IE 9

There's one webapp that won't work with latest version of Java (7 Update 51) but various other sites needs the latest version. So, I only virtualized the older Java and used the local IE (version 9) as an entry point, which uses the virtualized version of the java runtime instead of the latest version of java installed locally on the computer.