2021-12-16

Oracle's Flash-based "Enterprise Manager Database Express 12c" only displays a blank page

"The year is 2021 A.D. The internet is entirely occupied by HTML5. Well, not entirely... One small management console of indomitable legacy still holds out against the invader. And life is not easy for the tired sysadmins who garrison the unfortified camps of Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight and Java ..."

With the well deserved "death" of Adobe Flash at the end of 2020 everyone had hoped to finally get rid of all the clunky management consoles but life is not that nice to us sysadmins.

A few months after Flash was disabled in all modern browsers and refused to even let itself be invoked through legacy options a co-worker from our server team contacted me and asked if I had any way to still run Flash because otherwise they would not be able to access their "Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express 12c" console anymore. And from here it all went downhill ...