Application Blocked by Java Security: Security Warning: Your Security Settings Have Blocked a Self-Signed Application from Running with JRE 1.8.0_20 or Above (Doc ID 2074406.1)

Last updated on MAY 31, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

When running a Forms application with custom jar file or files that have been signed with a self-signed certificate the following Security Warning occurs:

FIGURE 1

Click on the "More Information" link and you will be taken to a web page discussing the security settings of your JRE.

The JRE Security Tab indicates the issue occurred because a certificate from a Trusted Certificate Authority (CA) was not used to sign the Jar Files:

FIGURE 2

Changes

 Any number of changes could cause this. Changes could be:

1.  Upgrading to a higher JRE version.

2.  Testing a newly signed custom jar files such as signed jacob.jar, jar files containing icons, or jar files containing other custom java code.

Cause

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