Re: IBM i and Java Support - Steve Will

" I copied the JRE from OpenJ9 and dropped it in the directory I have ACS
in and it works fine."

And when OpenJ9 is updated, you have to drop it in there again?

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 9:42 AM David Gibbs <david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/11/2018 8:37 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> > He never categorically answers this, but am I to infer that come
> > January, if we want to continue to use java from Oracle on Windows
> > desktops for ACS, we need to pay for it?
>
> For enterprise use, yes, you will need to pay for Oracle Java starting
> January 2019.
>
> If you're using one of the open source variants of Java, you don't have to
> pay for it (but you also get the appropriate level of support).
>
> > If so, I most likely misread earlier, because I was under the
> > impression it did not affect us ACS users.
>
> It's unrelated to ACS ... you can run ACS with any compatible Java. If
> you're using Oracle Java with ACS, you will have to pay for it.  If you're
> using OpenJ9, you don't.
>
> I copied the JRE from OpenJ9 and dropped it in the directory I have ACS in
> and it works fine.
>
> david
>
>
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