[las_users] Re: LAS 8.6.8 and JAVA JDK requirement

[Bryan Littlefield <bryan.littlefield@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roland,
Have you had a chance to make any of the JAVA updates you discussed below.
FYI I was able to get our LAS working with OpenJDK by simply replacing 
the JAVA setting in the startup scripts.
--Bryan


On 8/2/2019 1:05 PM, Roland Schweitzer - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> Bryan,
>
> My expectation is that LAS will work just fine with OpenJDK. I've run 
it in test environments, but we are behind the curve on testing it more 
fully in a production environment. It's on my list and I will update the 
documentation.
>
> The LAS configure script is not explicitly checking for the Oracle 
JDK just a that [oracle_path]/java actually executes and the output from 
[oracle_path]/java -version can be parsed into a major and minor version 
that is greater that the minimum required. This may not work depending 
on the formatting of the output from the [openjdk_path]/java -version. 
All this to say if you want to get around this for your own testing, 
then remove those checks from configure.pl or finesse them to work with 
the OpenJDK version string.
>
> I'll do all that soon, but any contribution or information about how 
it works from the LAS community is most welcome.
>
> Roland
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:04 PM Littlefield, Bryan 
<bryan.littlefield@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     Hi Roland,
>
>     We are currently using the latest Oracle JAVA 8 JDK with LAS 
version 8.6.8.
>
>     But now to get updates to this version of JAVA you need to purchase
>     software support from Oracle.
>
>     Is there a way to use OpenJDK  java instead of Oracle ? or do we 
need to
>     purchase support ?
>
>     Last I checked the installer checks for the Oracle JDK and won't 
install
>     without it.
>
> 
https://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LAS/documentation/installer-documentation/installation/preliminaries
>
>     Thanks --Bryan
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