Java SE 6 (1.6) not compatible with Revenue Online (ROS)
Written on January 16, 2007 by Conor O'Neill
John Collins recently blogged that ROS no longer supported Firefox and he was unable to get support from ROS on this. I ran into the same problem last week and just used Internet Explorer instead. However last night I tried to logon and got the same problem as Firefox i.e. no error, just sent back to login screen over and over.
There are no commonalities between IE7 and FF apart from one - Sun’s JRE. I’d recently installed the latest v6 JDK. Sure enough when I uninstalled it and went back to v1.5.0_09, all was well with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. I’m not sure who to blame with this, ROS or Sun. To be fair to ROS, they have been very standards compliant over the years and are still using a Baltimore Security Applet from many moons ago so my guess is that Sun have broken something.
If you get the auto-upgrade message from Java for v6 and you use ROS, decline the upgrade.
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I was in touch with ROS on 21/9/2006 to let them know about this and haven’t heard anything back from them. I use jdk1.5.0_x as my firefox plugin and jdk1.6.0 otherwise (this is on Linux - getting it to work on Linux involved creating a “C:” directory in my home directory).
Donnchadh
Seems to me they are being very specific because they want to show they certified every compliant platform and haven’t tried 6 yet.
Revenue Canada complains that it doesn’t recognise my browser (FF2.0.0.1) but it did say it would be okay with IE6, Netscape 7 and FF1.0.6… it allowed me through anyway though
I’ve just received an email from the ROS helpdesk stating that Java 6 is supported.
Supported in general or have they just added support?
Do you think this will make my Firefox stocks rise?
http://iam.always.online.fr/tr.php?wordid=2131