If you are familiar with Java, you probably know that starting with JDK 9, you may need to add some “–add-exports” or “–add-opens” parameters to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. This is the Strong Encapsulation, which started with JDK 9 and was only displaying warnings until JDK 16. With Java 17, however, it is now fully in effect so you may start seeing…
A couple year ago at a new customer, I was asked to install a new xPlore IndexAgent on an existing Documentum 16.4 environment. Unfortunately, that installation didn’t succeed, and I ended up with the following install logs: As you probably know, xPlore 16.4 is now quite old and it was still a version that came out-of-the-box with the Oracle JDK…
Recently, we had a project to modernize a little bit a pretty old Documentum installation. As part of this project, there were a refresh of the Application Server hosting a WebTop 6.8. In this blog, I will be talking about an issue that we faced in encryption & decryption of passwords in the refresh environment. This new environment was using…
If you are used to Java, you probably know that there are really important security fixes published every quarter in the Java Critical Patch Update (CPU) and it’s really important to keep it up to date. It’s always easy to upgrade your Java installation, you just have to deploy the new version entirely. In most cases, it’s also pretty easy…
