Windows server and Oracle Java updates

[Domingues, Michael D]

+1 on using the Oracle Java Sever JRE. We've got an automated deployment system (which I've described previously on this list) that handles downloading the latest version of Java as specified by a deployment configuration file and copying over the unlimited strength cryptography files, on any given release as needed.


As to updating the path to the JRE (for JAVA_HOME or the Tomcat service description, depending upon your setup) I make use of symlinks. Tomcat only has to know about [PathToJre]\jre (a symlink) and the deployment system handles updating the link to point at the new version once the installation has been verified.


Michael

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From: users <users-bounces at shibboleth.net> on behalf of Ortner Nikolaus <N.Ortner at fh-kaernten.at>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 7:12:53 AM
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Subject: AW: Windows server and Oracle Java updates

> What are folks running IdP v3 on Windows doing vis-a-vis Oracle Java
> updates?

I'm very happy with the server-jre on Windows - no install needed, just unzip it and copy the unlimited strength files into it, later import some internal certificates to the jre/lib/security/cacerts (that's the same 3 steps every time).
As we're running a tomcat8, there is no need for a system-wide JAVA_HOME, the new jre is simply switched by a reinstall of the service with bin/service.bat (or alternatively the jre can be configured using that config-program bin/tomcat8w.exe).

Kind regards.

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