Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

I can not find any information on whether jInitiator .28 will work with 128 bit encyption. We could not get v .18 to do so and are hoping the new version will??

Joe,Wow, this sure is a blast from the past.  The only official Oracle documentation I could find about Jinitiator's encryption level is an ancient FAQ from 1999:www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/256629.pdf US export regulations on crypto technology have been relaxed since then, so I'm trying to find out whether Jinitiator encryption support was upgraded from 40-bit to 128-bit encryption.  I'll post details here as soon as I have something more concrete to share.Regards,Steven 

Joe,Excerpted from Note 123718.1:<snip> Key Size Limitation of 512 bits for Oracle Forms 6i Server
Due to restrictions imposed by the United States during the initial development
of Oracle Applications Release 11i, rapid installs up to 11i.4 include the Export
Edition of Developer 6i. The result of this being that Oracle Wallet Manager
and Forms 6i Server supported a private/public key size no longer than 512 bits
and corresponding 40-bit client-server message encryption.
Since the original release of Oracle Applications Release 11i, laws concerning
encryption strength have relaxed, Developer 6i has gained an ?approved product?
status effectively removing the distinction between domestic and export encryption
and a key size of 1024 bits and corresponding 128-bit client-server message
encryption has become the recommended standard.
Bug 1365794
has been logged for this limitation of the Forms Server included with Release
11i technology stack.
Bug 1713616
provides details of a one off patch that can be applied to Developer 6i to upgrade
from the export to the domestic edition to gain the benefit of the improved
encryption levels that it supplies. This patch is required for any Release 11i
implementations that have been installed with RapidInstall versions 11i.3 or
earlier that would like to use the higher encryption levels supported in the
domestic version of the Developer 6I base. Any new implementations that have
been installed with version 11i.4 or later of RapidInstall will already incorporate
the domestic version of Developer 6i. (On NT 4.0 / Win 2000, any patch for 6I
will upgrade the export version to domestic). From Forms 6i patch 5 (6.0.8.14)
onwards, the domestic edition will be applied to all implementations.
If you are not sure which version of forms your install of Release 11i Applications
is using, you can check this by setting up the environment for the 8.0.6 ORACLE_HOME
and typing f60run. This will display a page of information to the terminal,
the first line of which shows the Forms Runtime version. </snip>If you're on 11.5.3 or earlier, the bottom line is that you can use Jinitiator with 128-bit encryption support by applying a few patches.  If you're on 11.5.4 and above, you already have 128-bit support.  If you have trouble patching your environment to support this, please drop me a line with your SR number and we'll get someone to help you with this.Regards,Steven 

we app. Server , Oracle 10g On windows2000 server
& we use Jinitiator 1.3.1.28 on XP SP2 it working good , but we have vista dos'not work with Jinitiator 1.3.1.28 ?
it there any release work with vista
Thank You Very Much

Hello, Khalid,

JInitiator 1.3 is based on Sun JDK 1.3.

Sun JDK 1.3 does not work on Microsoft Vista. Sun has desupported JDK 1.3 and has no plans to make this version compatible with Vista. Therefore, Oracle JInitiator will not work on Vista. See:

Windows Vista + IE7 Certified with E-Business Suite - http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2007/11/windows_vista_ie7_certified_wi.html

The only supported option for Vista desktops is to run the native Sun Java Runtime Engine (JRE) plug-in. See also:

Sun Java Plug-in 1.6.0_10 Certified with the E-Business Suite - http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2008/10/sun_java_plugin_160_10_certified_with_the_ebusines.html

Regards,
Steven