Windows server and Oracle Java updates

[Peter Schober]

* Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> [2016-11-30 21:12]:
> But the link "Server JRE"
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/server-jre8-downloads-2133154.html
> then gives me a .tgz for MS-Windows (?)
> http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u111-b14/server-jre-8u111-windows-x64.tar.gz
> which that OS knows not how to handle (of course) and which their
> install instructions don't mention: they talk about some exe thing I
> can't find anywhere:
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/install_overview.html
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/windows_server_jre.html#CFHGHHFJ
> 
> So I download 7-zip to extract that gzipped tar and what is the content
> of that "jre" for "windows"? A folder called jdk1.8.0_111, which
> actually seems to contain, well, the JDK?
> Also no sign of javacpl.exe which one is supposed to use to configre
> the auto-updating, which supposedly is in java_home/bin/ (but is not).

At least the instructions here match the behaviour
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/windows_server_jre.html#A1097054

"Unpack the tarball and install the Server JRE.
The Server JRE files are installed in a directory called
jdk1.8.0_version in the current directory."

So both tar and a folder called jdk are to be expexted (the former
obviously to annoy MS-Windows users, which I can sympathize with, the
latter to mess with everyone, seemingly).

No idea how the auto-update is supposed to happen then, but I'll leave
that for another time.
-peter