Oracle Finally Releases Java 8

[Calinou]

Is OpenJDK 8 stable and working well?

[Veerappan]

I just expand the .tar.gz archive into ~/opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0/. For development, it's best not to use the repo system, hence tools like rbenv in Ruby.

The only advantage to a repository version of Java is to support other Java apps in the repo.

Meh, I just use apt to install openjdk[78]. That way I get updates as they're tagged/built, and given that OpenJDK is the official reference platform for Oracle JDK (at least I'm pretty sure I read something to that effect), I figure I'm not missing much.

[obedlink]

the problem of non-transparent icons in the system tray. Does this corrected?
since I enter the world gnu / linux, this aesthetic problem has always existed.

[Delgarde]

I just expand the .tar.gz archive into ~/opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0/. For development, it's best not to use the repo system, hence tools like rbenv in Ruby.

We do the same... via a somewhat arcane packaging process, our dev machines at work have all the different versions of our techstack parallel-installed under /opt, so there's a directory with about eight different Java versions in it, ranging from 1.4 to 7. I'll have to see if I can clean out any of the old versions when we start looking at 8...

[Pseus]

Awesome! Switching as soon as possible.

[DanLamb]

Thanks for the props, op!

I just expand the .tar.gz archive into ~/opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0/. For development, it's best not to use the repo system, hence tools like rbenv in Ruby.

The only advantage to a repository version of Java is to support other Java apps in the repo.

Jigsaw supposedly will make application distribution a lot better on Linux in Java 9

[Andrecorreia]

because they love red hat

i hate that they dont provide one -.-
i find myself using webupd8 ppa: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/insta...buntu-via.html
for easy install and update.

is there a reason why they dont provide a deb file or even better put it on the store?

because they love red hat, like intel do with this openclsdk, but a ppa exists, not really a problem

[TheSoulz]

Oracle doesn't distribute a .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu, but it can be generated with java-package 0.53:

$ apt-get install java-package
$ make-jpkg jdk-8-linux-x64.tar.gz

i hate that they dont provide one -.-
i find myself using webupd8 ppa: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/insta...buntu-via.html
for easy install and update.

is there a reason why they dont provide a deb file or even better put it on the store?

[ebourg]

Oracle doesn't distribute a .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu, but it can be generated with java-package 0.53:

$ apt-get install java-package
$ make-jpkg jdk-8-linux-x64.tar.gz