Sunday 29 January 2012

Digital Certificate Expired Details

Digital Certificate Expired Details:
The digital certificate used to sign Oracle Forms deployment related JAR files has expired on Thu Mar 24 19:59:59 EDT 2011.
So, a dialog box appears whenever form application opens.


Impact on the Application:
The expiration of the JAR signature does not prevent the use of the product or applications created with it . It simply means that inspection of the certificate details will show the expiration date.  It also means that end users may be presented with a dialog at startup which indicates that the ce! rtificate has expired, but are offered an option to run the application regardless.

Choosing Cancel or Deny, will prevent the Forms applet from running.


Workaround:
Clicking on yes on the dialog box,  the application runs fine.


Solution:
Apply the following patches:
1.) Forms bundle patch: 9593176 (Size :5.9MB)
2.) Patch:11710576 (Size :4.7MB)


Validity of the solution:
These patches are available to extend the jar file expiration date to Sat Jul 06 19:59:59 EDT 2013.


Approach:
The patch will be applied on the Pre-prod environment first. Testing will be done in preprod first and if successful the patch will be applied to the Production Environment.


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