Are we at risk of needing to pay Oracle for Java fees?

Jaymer

so what we need is some official help from Aware on how to upgrade the Java that comes with Aware, to the Open JDK version?

aware_support

It should be the same as upgrading to a different version of Java. And this should be explained in the Installation Guide.

nhofkes

It's explained on page 18 and 19 of the Installation Guide for version 8.5. I found upgrading to Open JDK really simple.
As pointed out before by Support, you need to rename or delete the old tools.jar files. I provided a PowerShell script to do that automatically in this post (but I guess that only works in Windows).

aware_support

Starting from version 8.6 tools.jar will no longer be required.

nhofkes

Does that mean (a) that tools.jar is not included with version 8.6, or (b) that it is no longer necessary to remove or delete it when changing to OpenJDK?

aware_support

It is no longer included and it is no longer necessary to delete it when changing Java.

intra

Just to confirm, plugin's that were written prior to v8.6 will also need to rewritten not to look up tools.jar as dependencies too?

aware_support

No, I think all the plugins should still be OK

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