[Mozilla Enterprise] Running Java - was Re: Firefox auto updating issue

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Robert Stallknecht wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My company, GDC Technics, has been having issues with Firefox auto 
> updating to version 60+ for the last few weeks. When this happens our 
> entire organization is unable to launch Java functionality in Oracle and 
> they are unable to work.

1. Oracle recommend that java aps are run with Java Web Start, rather than 
directly in a browser
https://java.com/en/download/faq/java_webstart.xml

Java Web Start has been available since Java 5, and Java 8 is the last 
version which can be run in a browser.

2. Oracle are dropping free commercial support for Java 8 in January 2019
https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/end-of-public-updates-is-a-process%2c-not-an-event
(non-free commercial and free non-commercial support will continue for two and five years ...)

Java 9 is dead and Java 10 went EOL last month
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

I trust that you are looking at your java strategy further ahead,
ad well as solving the immediate problem with Firefox 60.

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Cambridge, UK
 			andrew at aitchison.me.uk