When adding actions to a VMWare RA Agent job using Java 1.7 recieve an access denied error

Products

• CA Automic Applications Manager (AM)

Issue/Introduction

When adding actions to a VMWare RA Agent job using Java 1.7 recieve an access denied error

Environment

Release: AAMOS499000-8.0-Automic Applications Manager-OS400 Agent
Component:

Resolution

Symptoms

When using Java version 1.7 with Applications Manager v8 and trying to add actions to a VMWare RA Agent job you will see the following errors:

java.security.AccessControlException:access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission""getClassLoader")

               at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(Unknown Source)

               at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(Unknown Source)

               at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(Unknown Source)

               at java.lang.reflect.Proxy.checkProxyAccess(Unknown Source)

               at java.lang.reflect.Proxy.newProxyInstance(Unknown Source)

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Cause

This is an issue related to the changes made by Oracle in Java 1.7.  This issue is being tracked in PRB0309648.

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Workaround

The workaround for this issue is to use Java 1.6.