Oracle Java Deployment Rule Set still broken

When Oracle began building in stronger security measures in their Java products in December 2012 with version 7 Update 10, IT departments discovered that the product could no longer work correctly. End users found that the product could no longer access Java applets or applications without error messages being presented. Enterprises found that the additional security did not include measures to bypass it, even for their own internally owned sites.

In September of 2013, Oracle released Deployment Rule Set (DRS) with Java 7 Update 40. DRS introduced the use of an XML file that allowed for defining a site and whether it was allowed to run. An extension to allowing the site to run, the XML could also define which version of Java to run the site with.

These versions do not support the feature to use a specific version of Java for a specified site.

Java 7 Releases	Release Date
Java 7 Update 60 Limited Update	May 28, 2014
Java 7 Update 55 CPU	April 15, 2014
Java 7 Update 51 CPU	January 14, 2014
Java 7 Update 45 CPU	October 15, 2013
Java 7 Update 40 Limited Update	September 10, 2013

If you've been stressing-out attempting to get this functionality working, waiting until a version that works is released would alleviate that stress.

REFERENCE

Deployment Rule Set
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/security/deployment_rules.html