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

[Jo Brown]

On 10/8/2018 8:53 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> 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.

That is not correct.  I run Java 10 in Basilisk 64 bit 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

Java 10.0.2 does not expire until Nov 16.  It did not go EOL last month.
> 
> I trust that you are looking at your java strategy further ahead,
> ad well as solving the immediate problem with Firefox 60.
>