Windows server and Oracle Java updates

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/30/16, 4:40 PM, "users on behalf of Steven Teixeira" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of steixeira at csustan.edu> wrote:

> I'm not sure why every version of Java installs to a folder with the version name instead of to a generic name.

You answered it yourself right in the next paragraph. ;-)

> I was concerned that Java updates might break things(they have more often than not in my limited experience),

They can and do. That's why package-managed Java on Linux isn't reliable, and why OpenJDK is worthless because that's its only real advantage over the real stuff, you can't trust it. So there's no point to it really.

Java patching is quarterly on a pretty fixed schedule, so it's just one of those things you do every three months, though really most of the critical bugs are client Java anyway, so twice a year is usually plenty.

-- Scott

PS. Yes, I'm sure lots of people have had good luck blindly updating Java automatically. I haven't. Over and over. Not trying it again, my trust is gone and will never come back.