Fixed licenses in Oxygen 24

[Johann]

Hello,

I try to upgrade Author component from 23.1 to 24.

I saw that init methods of AuthorComponentFactory have been changed. Now, we are obliged to put a license server host, username and password.

A lot of our customers use a fixed license key so I tried to put "null" to these fields.

In that case, a popup "There is no host specified..." appears then another popup appears where the user can fill its license key or its license server.

If the user puts its license key, he can access the application. However, if he closes the application and launches it again, a license is requested once again.
In 23.1 version, once the license key had been filled in, it was stored in the oxygen directories and was no longer requested.

Has this behavior changed ?

Thanks,

Johann

[Radu]

Hi Johann,

The API to programmatically register a fixed license key to the component was deprecated in Oxygen 23.0 and removed in Oxygen 24.0.
See the section "Injecting a License Key in the Author Component Now Deprecated" from the Oxygen 23.0 release notes: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whatisnew23.0.html

If the users have user based licenses, you made the right choice to send null values for the server details, it's correct according to our EULA that the component showed a license dialog but it's bad that the license information does not seem to be preserved between sessions, I registered an issue to look into this.

If the users have floating licenses they can set up a floating license servlet on their side and you can either inject the floating license details programmatically from the code or continue to send null server details and they can set the details themselves when the license input dialog is shown. And again it's important that the license information remains between sessions, I will look into this.

Regards,
Radu

[Johann]

Hi Radu,


Ok, I am glad to read that it is not normal that the user based license is required every time. I am waiting for your return on this point.


Other suggestion, as I said, most of our customers use user based licenses. I find it a bit odd that there is a "There is no host specified..." popup that appears when they will never fill in a license host.

Thank you,

Johann

[Radu]

Hi Johann,

Can you email us off list (support@oxygenxml.com)? I have some additional questions for you so that I better understand your situation.

Regards,
Radu

[Radu]

Hi,

As an update the 24.0.0.1 release of our SDK should no longer show that "could not connect to host" error dialog before showing the license registration dialog if all the credentials set via the API are null.

Regards,
Radu