I stand corrected and should read my own wiki link:
"Java 6 reached the end of its supported life in February 2013, at which
time all updates, including security updates, were scheduled to be
stopped.[26][27] Oracle released one more update to Java 6 in March 2013,
which patched some security vulnerabilities."
So its security-up-to-date *now*, but the last security patch has been
released so will get worse as time goes on (more vulnerabilities, no
fixes). Given this, hopefully the GeoServer devs have a plan for updating
to Java 7. I think its on their todo list.
Jonathan
On 14 March 2013 15:12, Jonathan Moules
<[email protected]>wrote:
> HI Robert,
> I'm far from an expert in Java. But to change which Java Geoserver uses,
> change the JAVA_HOME variable:
>
> http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/installation/windows/binary.html?highlight=java_home#setting-environment-variables
> This way you can have multiple javas installed and specify which to use.
>
> > Is there any possible issues (security or otherwise) using the old JRE?
> Java 6 is still in support I believe, at least for security issues.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_6#Java_6_updates - the last one was
> just 10 days ago.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> On 14 March 2013 15:02, Langford, Robert
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Jonathan,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks for the info, I’d never heard of any problems like this.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> How can I change the JRE path for the current installation? I’ll try the
>> JDK and if not successful I can try JRE6 (although it definitely was
>> working on the last JRE7 version I was using before the update).****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Is there any possible issues (security or otherwise) using the old JRE?**
>> **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Many thanks,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Rob****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* Jonathan Moules [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* 14 March 2013 14:48
>> *To:* Langford, Robert
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [Geoserver-users] Latest JRE update problem****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hi Robert,****
>>
>> I think I saw a thread a few days ago saying that it needed to be the
>> JDK for Java 7.****
>>
>> Ah, here we are:****
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30581542****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I believe the general stance is that Java 7 isn't really supported
>> currently. The JDK may work, and JRE6 certainly should.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Jonathan****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On 14 March 2013 13:18, Langford, Robert <[email protected]>
>> wrote:****
>>
>> Hi,****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Today I updated my JRE to: jre-7u17-windows-i586****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> I was running Geoserver 2.2.3 on Win 2008 Server.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Following the machine restart after the Java install I noticed my
>> Geoserver Service hadn’t started. From the logs I found that it wasn
’t
>> finding a “valid JRE”. I checked the directory and it appeared the install
>> hadn’t worked (lots of files missing) so I reinstalled the JRE and rebooted
>> again.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> This time the Geoserver Service started just fine, however when trying to
>> access the Web Admin page I got a 503 error. As I was planning on updating
>> Geoserver as well (and thought this may solve the issue) I then installed
>> 2.2.5; install went fine, installed as a service, valid JRE found.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> However I’m still getting the 503 error. Please see an extract from the
>> log below.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Many thanks,****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Rob****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> 2013-03-14 12:59:36,620 ERROR [context.ContextLoader] - Context
>> initialization failed****
>>
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating
>> bean with name 'wmsDescribeLayer' defined in URL
>> [jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/GeoServer%202.2.2/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/wms-2.2.5.jar!/applicationContext.xml]:
>> Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is
>> org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate
>> bean class [org.geoserver.wms.DescribeLayer]: No default constructor found;
>> nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodException:
>> org.geoserver.wms.DescribeLayer.<init>()****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:997)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:943)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:585)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:913)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:464)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:385)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:284)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.geoserver.platform.GeoServerContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(GeoServerContextLoaderListener.java:18)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.startContext(ContextHandler.java:540)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:135)****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1220)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:510)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:448)***
>> *
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)*
>> ***
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.doStart(ContextHandlerCollection.java:156)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)*
>> ***
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:152)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)*
>> ***
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130)
>> ****
>>
>> at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:222)****
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)*
>> ***
>>
>> at
>> org.mortbay.xml.XmlConfiguration.main(XmlConfiguration.java:977)****
>>
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
>> Method)****
>>
>> at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> ****
>>
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)****
>>
>> at org.mortbay.start.Main.invokeMain(Main.java:183)****
>>
>> at org.mortbay.start.Main.start(Main.java:497)****
>>
>> at org.mortbay.start.Main.main(Main.java:115)****
>>
>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
>> Method)****
>>
>> at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>> ****
>>
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)****
>>
>> at
>> org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp.run(WrapperSimpleApp.java:238)
>> ****
>>
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)****
>>
>> Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could
>> not instantiate bean class [org.geoserver.wms.DescribeLayer]: No default
>> constructor found; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodException:
>> org.geoserver.wms.DescribeLayer.<init>()****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:72)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:990)
>> ****
>>
>> ... 42 more****
>>
>> Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException:
>> org.geoserver.wms.DescribeLayer.<init>()****
>>
>> at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2730)****
>>
>> at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructor(Class.java:2004)
>> ****
>>
>> at
>> org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:67)
>> ****
>>
>> ... 43 more****
>>
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