Summary:

This article discusses installers getting aborted without any proper message when using Java 17.0.8 or Java 11.0.20.

Symptoms :

When an Installer uses java 17.0.8 or 11.0.20 to execute itself the installer abruptly crashes with below stack trace and message “This Application has Unexpectedly Quit: Invocation of this Java Application has caused an ExceptionInInitializerError. This application will now exit. (LAX)”.

Cause :

A new JRE enhancement patch in Java 11 and Java 17 causes installers to crash due to new restrictions on ZipFS. As part of the fix for JDK-8251329, restrictions were added to the ZipFS provider to throw an exception if opening a ZIP file that contained entries with "." or ".." in its name elements. This behavior change may be problematic in older environments where modification of such ZIP files may be difficult.

Workaround :

A new system property java.util.zip.ZipFile has been updated to provide additional validation of ZIP64 extra fields when opening a ZIP file. This validation may be disabled by setting the system property jdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation to true.. InstallAnywhere already provides a feature called additional arguments which can be used to modify the value of jdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true system property.

In Windows:

1. Navigate to Project->JVM Settings->Installer Settings

2. Add argument -Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true in Additional arguments TextField

In Linux,
set JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS= -Djdk.util.zip.disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation=true environment variable in /etc/environment file or vi ~/.bashrc