Hello,
Now that Oracle SQL Developer is being released frequently every 3 months, we're trying to see if we can package and automate the deployment of this tool through to several Windows workstations (~ 100) in our organization.
I wish there was an easy way to deploy such that it would take care of detecting where SQL Developer zip contents were extracted to which folder and where is it actively running from and infact, be able to seamlessly upgrade it in silent/quiet mode on Windows. Having to manually perform this task for 100 PCs is taking a lot from our resources.
If a user already installed an older version of Oracle SQL Developer by manually downloading the ZIP file and then extracting its contents to some folder path, how can we read the path to this active folder? Because it is not anywhere in Windows Registry, so we're having an issue with automating a package for quick deployment.
Plus, after we find a way to auto-detect the installation folder, we need to do more steps to ensure the pre-reqs like JDK is installed or not; disable the older version of SQL Developer by renaming the folder perhaps, before deploying the newer version of SQL Developer.
Any guidance to automate all this would be appreciated.
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