Support JDK 8 on platforms other than Oracle

[carmstrong]

Thanks to #147, the cookbook installs JDK 8 on Oracle. OpenJDK 8 builds have not yet been pushed to the various platform repositories, which means we don't yet have a method for installation on other platforms. Should we consider an alternative package repository for each platform? #149 suggests one for Ubuntu, but I think maintaining cookbook logic for each platform would become cumbersome.

I'd like to add support for JDK 8 sooner rather than later, so we can prepare v2.0.0 of the cookbook which will drop support for JDK 6 and install JDK 7 by default.

[kybishop]

I was wondering if there was any update on this. What repositories are you referring to when you say "the various platform repositories"?

[carmstrong]

By "the various platform repositories", I meant Ubuntu, CentOS, etc. package repositories. It'd be easier to update the code to refer to one package when an update is released rather than track down new packages for each distribution.

As for an update, I maintained this cookbook while I was employed at Socrata, but no longer work there and don't have the time to actively maintain the cookbook. Essentially, the cookbook needs a major rewrite and should focus on a v2 release.

[docwhat]

FYI: CentOS and RHEL 6.6 now have OpenJDK 1.8 available:

# yum search java-1.8
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.mirror.ndchost.com
 * extras: mirror.trouble-free.net
 * updates: mirror.team-cymru.org
============================================================================= N/S Matched: java-1.8 ==============================================================================
java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment
java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo.x86_64 : OpenJDK Demos
java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64 : OpenJDK Development Environment
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment
java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc.noarch : OpenJDK API Documentation
java-1.8.0-openjdk-src.x86_64 : OpenJDK Source Bundle

  Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.

The default.rb check should be fixed to reflect that.

[erichelgeson]

Yep, this will get tricky here quickly as openjdk 8 pushes out. Maybe we could let the package manager fail instead of trying to catch early (push the logic out of the recipe). You may have other repos that have openjdk as well.

[hntd187]

Amazon linux also has openjdk available.

Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
========================================================================================================== N/S matched: java-1.8 ===========================================================================================================
java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment
java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo.x86_64 : OpenJDK Demos
java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64 : OpenJDK Development Environment
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.x86_64 : OpenJDK Runtime Environment
java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc.noarch : OpenJDK API Documentation
java-1.8.0-openjdk-src.x86_64 : OpenJDK Source Bundle

[derekbelrose]

Has there been any decision made about this? Right now I'm running a forked version using the patch that is mentioned in this issue.

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