recommended JVM version

[IAM David Bantz]

I've been handed a new server for our v2 IdP;
the current production environment has been RHEL 5.11, Tomcat 6.0.16,
Oracle Java 1.60;
this new production environment is RHEL 6.6, Tomcat 7.0.33 and Open JVM 1.5
which the Sibb documentation strongly urges me to replace with Oracle's
"standard" JVM.  However the Shibb documentation does not specify a
version. I see lots of messages on this list  indicting use of 7, while
only a few using current 8 and those indicating problems, indicating a
scripting problem resolved by reverting to Java 7 and part of the Shibb
installation instructions for memory superceded.

So should I deploy the current Oracle Java 8 (which Oracle describes as
major and "revolutionary" upgrade), or stick with the older tried-and-true
still-available Java 7 for a refreshed IdP 2.4.4 using a lot of scripted
attributes from my Java 6 environment?

David Bantz
U Alaska
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