JRE Update

After Update from JRE 6 to JRE 7 Sesam Server on Windows systems will not startup

Indication

After a customer has updated his Java istallation from major version 6 to version 7, the Sesam server does not startup, this manual will explains how to fix this issue. This only concerns customers with Sesam installations on Windows based operating systems.

Cause of the problem

The Sesam server configuration file:

<sesam_install_dir>/var/ini/sm.ini

includes an configuration topic which saves the path to the JRE virtual machine detected during SEP Sesams installation:

[JAVA]
java_exit_on_fail=no
java_interpreter=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java 

After the update from JRE 6 to JRE 7, this path is not present on the system anymore, this causes the Sesam startup to fail.

Solution

In order to resolve the issue edit this configuration file and change the path to point to the JRE 7 installation, usually this Path is:

C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java 

change the configuration file to:

[JAVA]
java_exit_on_fail=no
java_interpreter=C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java 

Starting the Sesam Service should work after the change has been commited to the configuration file.

Further steps include changing the Start menu items aswell as the desktop icons, both include the path to the JRE installation and have to be changed to make the GUI startup possible, see this screenshot: