Unable to run Webstart Workstation with Open JDK.

Products

• CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• CA Application Performance Management (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• INTROSCOPE
• DX Application Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

Unable to launch the Webstart Workstation with OpenJDK:

get the following error:

 

net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: Could not initialize application. The application has not been initialized, for more information execute Netx directly from the command line.

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplication(Launcher.java:822)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:531)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:945)

Caused by: net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: Unknown Main-Class. Could not determine the main class for this application.

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.initializeResources(JNLPClassLoader.java:774)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.<init>(JNLPClassLoader.java:338)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.createInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:421)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:495)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.getInstance(JNLPClassLoader.java:468)

                at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplication(Launcher.java:814)

                ... 2 more

 

Environment

Release : 10.7.0

Component : APM Webstart Workstation

OpenJDK 1.8 

Cause

Per Engineering, OpenJDK does not contain javaws.jar which needed to launch APM Webstart workstation.

APM does not support IcedTea Java that comes with OpenJDK for webstart. 

Resolution

Workaround: Install Standalone Workstation client on PC or use Webview / Team center.