Upgrading to Java 8

Products affected:

Express Server 9 through Express Server 9.0.5

Summary of problem:

Older versions of Express Server 9 do not support Java 8. If you upgrade to Java 8, the Express Server Manager and ExpressZip web applications may not appear.

Solution:

Upgrade to a more recent version of Express Server to fix this issue. Alternatively, complete the following steps to fix the issue without upgrading:

1. Open the Windows Services utility.
2. Stop the LizardTech Express Server Tomcat Service and the LizardTech Express Server Admin Backend Service.
3. Navigate to the Express Server Tomcat directory. By default, the Tomcat directory is in the following location:

C:/LizardTech/Express Server/ImageServer/Tomcat

4. Open the conf/catalina.properties file in a text editor.
5. Find the following line:

junit.jar,junit-*.jar,ant-launcher.jar

6. Change the line to the following two lines:
7. jar,junit-*.jar,ant-launcher.jar,\

jfxrt.jar,nashorn.jar

8. Save the file.
9. Open the Windows Services utility.
10. Start the LizardTech Express Server Admin Backend Service and the LizardTech Express Server Tomcat Service.