Java Webstart can fail after 6.30.7 with an Java exception

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ITM 6.30.07 and using the ORACLE SUN JRE 1.8 it could happen,  that the JAVA Webstart (JWS) is failing with an exception like:

        JNLParseException[ Could not parse launch file. Error at line 36.]
             at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(Unknown Source)
             at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source)

       Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 36; columnNumber: 40; The string "--" is not permitted within comments.
           at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
           at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)

          org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 36; columnNumber: 40; The string "--" is not permitted within comments.
          at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
          at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)

To make the JWS working again you need to modify the tep.jnlpt and tep.jnlp on the TEPS server.

Windows:

  - modify the c:\IBM\ITM\Config\tep.jnlpt                            (set the changes permanently)

  - modify the c:\IBM\ITM\CNB\tep.jnlp                                 (set the changes temporary if a TEPS reconfiguration is not possible but will lost at the

                                                                                                     next TEPS reconfiguration)

UNIX:

   - modify the    /opt/IBM/ITM/config/tep.jnlpt                     (set the changes permanently)

   - modify the  /opt/IBM/ITM/<interpreter>/cw/tep.jnlp    (set the changes temporary if a TEPS reconfiguration is not possible but will lost at the

                                                                                                     next TEPS reconfiguration)

                      FROM:
                                    <homepage href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.itm.doc/toc.xml">
                                    <homepage>             
 
                                    <!-- Customization instructions --------------------------------------------- -->
                                    <!-- No instructions found ----- -->
                                    <!-- /Customization instructions -------------------------------------------- -->
                                    
                       TO:
                                    <homepage href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.itm.doc/toc.xml"/>
                    
                                    <!-- Customization instructions -->
                                    <!-- No instructions found -->
                                    <!-- /Customization instructions -->

- now clear the Java cache of your JWS and restart the JWS.  The JWS should come up now and working as expected.

! The modification of the  <homepage> tag has nothing to do with this exception, but is a typo in the tep.jnlp(t)  and is addressed in APAR IV92369 !

   https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IV92369

! The wrong "------" i have seen mostly on Windows 6.30.7 envirornments, so it seems only related to a tep.jnlp(t) on Windows Tivoli Enterprise Servers !

#jens

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