Registry settings are not consistent with version.exe

Question

Under the bin directory, there is version.exe which I think would print out the version of wls. When I try to use it, I got the following:
E:\Apps\weblogic600\bin>version
Cannot find key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BEA Systems\WebLogic\6.0.0b1:
The Windows registry is misconfigured
for the WebLogic Server
cannot find weblogic registry settings:
The Windows registry is misconfigured
for the WebLogic Server
Then I check the registry and the entries are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BEA Systems\WebLogic\6.0 Beta

Answer 1

We will be removing version.exe in future revisions of this software. We are replacing many of the native .exe's with java code and scripts
that wrap java commands in an effort to provide consistency cross-platform and also make execution of the server and related functions as
obvious as possible by exposing how the environment is set, etc. . Also, we are restricting our use of the Windows registry, instead using a
common installation registry which can be found in your BEA Home directory. This registry will be used on all platforms and for many BEA
products giving a single source of installation information on both Windows and Unix. You caught us in transition with the elimination of
certain .exe's and we apologize for any confusion that this caused.
Helen Semus wrote:
Under the bin directory, there is version.exe which I think would print out the version of wls. When I try to use it, I got the following:
E:\Apps\weblogic600\bin>version
Cannot find key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BEA Systems\WebLogic\6.0.0b1:
The Windows registry is misconfigured
for the WebLogic Server
cannot find weblogic registry settings:
The Windows registry is misconfigured
for the WebLogic Server
Then I check the registry and the entries are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BEA Systems\WebLogic\6.0 Beta