Richard Pajerski: Software development and consulting

Java applets in Notes 64-bit client not loading

by Richard Pajerski

Posted on Wednesday December 21, 2022 at 07:17PM in Technology

[February 2023 update: DOTS follow-up, SPR for applet bug]

For the first time in the history of Notes, HCL last month released a fully supported 64-bit version of the Notes standard, Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients with release 12.0.2. Overall I've found it to be more stable and certainly faster than its 32-bit counterpart and so I now use it regularly. However, it's not without its issues with reports popping up here and here. And I have another to add: Java applets won't load in the 12.0.2 64-bit client. I submitted a ticket to HCL and they could reproduce this so they're preparing an SPR.

A notable aspect of this bug is that there are no error logs (that I could find) to indicate something's wrong. Nothing in the Java Debug console, the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT folder, log.nsf, etc. You will see the Java coffee cup but I think most end users will not immediately interpret it as a problem:

This issue is probably not an inconvenience for most deployments since Java applets were never widely implemented in Notes (in my experience). But where applets are used, they can bring quite a bit of power (e.g. custom interfaces for any third-party system with a Java API -- databases, message queues and so on). The good news is that applets do still work in 32-bit Notes 12.0.2 and will likely be supported in Notes as long as Java 8 remains the default runtime.

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Traveler 12 expired APNS certificates

by Richard Pajerski

Posted on Wednesday December 21, 2022 at 03:07PM in Technology

It looks like the expiration date for APNS p12 certificates that shipped with Traveler 12.0.1 was on or about December 19, 2022. If you have a Traveler 12.0.1 (November 2021) installation and started seeing Domino console messages similar to:

[1034:0002-1038] 12/21/2022 01:38:08 PM  Traveler: SEVERE <User> Unable to get the PushNotificationResponse for apnsId null Exception Thrown...

on or after that date, the resolution is to apply Traveler 12.0.1 Fix Pack 2 which includes new APNS p12 certificates that expire in September 2023. Until that fixpack gets applied (or you upgrade to Traveler 12.0.2 which also contains updated certificates), iOS users will no longer receive notifications of new email on their devices.

More here: What's new in Traveler 12.0.1 Fix Pack 2?

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