Question

An applet developed outside our company just started failing for some users this week. Apparently it was because of the latest version of java (1.6u24) that auto updated. Is there a way to capture what version of java the user opened the applet with?

Answer 1

Using the answers from another question, I ended up writing the code below. When the page loads, I get the user’s java version then use an ajax call to save it where ever I need to. The part I used was the reference to the deployJava.js from Sun.

$(document).ready(function() {
    var jVersion = "";
    for (var i = 0; i < deployJava.getJREs().length; ++i) {
        jVersion += deployJava.getJREs()[i];
    }

    var url = 'saveJavaVersionAction.jsp';
    var params = 'version=' + jVersion;

    $.ajax({
        url: url,
        data: params,
        success: function(html) {
            $("#results").append(html);     
        }
    });

});