CF 2025 Installation Error - Windows 2025

[cld007]

Hi,

I am getting the following error message as I try to install the Trial version of ColdFusion 2025 GUI WWEJ Win64 on a Windows Server 2025 (VMware) :

"This application has Unexpecedly Quit  Invocation of this Java Application has cause an Invocation TargetException. This application will now exi (LAX)."

- The server already has CF2021 installed and I am trying to install CF2025 as a distinct installation.

- I have also installed JDK 25 as I thought it was a pre-requisite to have JDK 17 or higher installed but I still get the same error.

- I have disabled the Anti-virus hoping that it may help - still get same error message

Below are the details regarding the erro message I get:

I tried creating a "Package" from the Admin Console (FRL Online) but the zip file I get doesn't get me anywhere... I get a successfull Installation message but CF2025 is nowhere to be found. 

Installation sure have changed since I installed CF2021!! ... and not necessarily for the better!

I am clueless and any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Claude

[BKBK · Accepted solution]

The ColdFusion 2025 Support Matrix says that Java 25 and Windows Server 2025 are not supported. For ColdFusion 2025 you should use instead Windows Server 2022, 2019 or 2016, and Java 21 (of which you can download the latest version from the ColdFusion downloads page).

[cld007]

Hello BKBK,

And I thought I was being pro-active by installing CF2025 on the latest platform!!!

I should have known better!

Thanks a bunch!

Claude

[BKBK]

My pleasure, Claude.

Happy coding!

[Charlie Arehart]

Claude (and future readers), this error happens every time a new Windows version comes out. Expanding on what bkbk had told you, the issue is not technically whether cf itself can run on the new OS, Windows 2025 in this case. Instead it's solely about the underlying installanywhere software that Adobe uses for the cf installer, and the fact that IT is an old installer (from early 2025) that didn't then yet support Windows 2025.

Some good news is that (If past experience is a guide) we can expect that in coming months (perhaps even weeks) they'll come out with a "refreshed installer" for cf2025 which WILL support windows 2025 (because it will be built using the new installanywhere software which will include windows 2025 support). They often do that late in the year the new OS comes out, or early the next year

BTW, the cf installation always includes a built-in Java which IS the version that that CF currently supports, which as bkbk notes is currently Java 21 for cf2025.

And FWIW, sometimes the refreshed installer also includes a new Java version (like Java 25, the current latest Oracle LTS version). And sometimes they include SUPPORT for the newer Java version by way of a cf UPDATE, for those who have already installed CF. 

But if they don't do that refreshed installer, they would almost certainly use that Java 25 version for the next cf version, due to be CF2026. (No telling how many months away that will be.)

Hope that's helpful, again perhaps more for future readers who may find the error message you offered here. 

[cld007]

Thank you so much Charlie for all these clarifications. It all makes sense now...