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confusion over how to install Java 8 from Oracle for potential Dataverse developers #7234

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pdurbin opened this issue Aug 26, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #7242
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confusion over how to install Java 8 from Oracle for potential Dataverse developers #7234

pdurbin opened this issue Aug 26, 2020 · 2 comments · Fixed by #7242

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pdurbin commented Aug 26, 2020

I'm setting up a new laptop and following the dev guide. It says to get Java from Oracle, which makes sense historically, but because Dataverse requires Java 8, what seems like the obvious things to click lead to a login screen:

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On my previous laptop I had switched to https://adoptopenjdk.net and will probably try that instead (and if it works, suggest this in the guides).
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fwiw: in my container images I'm using OpenJDK (CentOS) and Zulu JDK (Payara base image)

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rtreacy commented Aug 27, 2020

OpenJDK is the way to go.

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recommend OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK #7234 #7241
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improve docs on setting up a new dev environment IQSS/dataverse
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