{"id":615,"date":"2019-09-15T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:15:17","slug":"java-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/general-info\/java-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle have altered the licensing model for Java which means that from January 2019 the University would have to purchase a license for every workstation that has Oracle Java installed which was released after the version Java 8 update 201.<\/p>\n<p>This would be an extorniate cost for the University, so the decision has been taken to remove Oracle Java in a phased rollout from all SHU workstations and to replace it with Amazon Corretto, which is a free Java JDK.<\/p>\n<p>This rollout has begun with the staff MD10 Office rollout that are part of the Early Adopters rollout.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving workstations using version 8 Update 201 is not an option due to security flaws that would not be resolved if updated versions are not installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle have altered the licensing model for Java which means that from January 2019 the University would have to purchase a license for every workstation that has Oracle Java installed which was released after the version Java 8 update 201. This would be an extorniate cost for the University, so the decision has been taken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":353,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/620"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/md10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}