After upgrading DB Connect 2.0.x to 2.1.0, why are we getting "Unsupported JRE detected. Using: Oracle Corporation JRE version: 1.8 and VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM"?

[hortonew]

After upgrading from DB Connect 2.0.x to 2.1.0, we're now getting this error:

JRE Status: Unsupported JRE detected. Using: Oracle Corporation JRE version: 1.8 and VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM . Need: Oracle Corporation JRE version 1.8

Using:

javahome = /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0

Is it a problem with the OpenJDK VM?

[hsesterhenn]

Hi,

I use an older Ubuntu LTS 12.04 environment (to lazy to update 🙂 and have DBConnect 1.2.2 and DBConnect 2.1.x installed in parallel.

To upgrade to the latest Java 1.7 (OpenJDK) and Java 1.8 (Oracle!!!!) version these URLs helped...

Java 1.7.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/48468/how-do-i-install-java
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Java 1.8. Oracle!
http://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-java-8-jdk-8-ubuntu-via-ppa/#

OpenJDK 1.8 does not work!!!!
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/01/install-openjdk-8-ubuntu-14-04-12-04-lts/

HTH,

Holger

[hortonew · Accepted solution]

Downloaded jre-8u66-linux-x64.tar.gz from supported http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html site. Now it's working.