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Eirik Bakke commented on NETBEANS-1202:
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Here's the use case as I see it: Whenever I build my NetBeans Platform
application, I bundle an OpenJDK JRE (I use https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu
). That's already "supported": Just put the JRE or JDK in the platform
application folder and enter the relative path in netbeans.conf (or app.conf or
whatever is the branded equivalent). What would be great is if the NetBeans
Autoupdate system could be configured to then automatically keep this bundled
JRE (or JDK) up to date. In this case it would be the platform application
provider that would supply the updated JREs, "as if they were Netbeans modules"
(quoth Austin Stephens).
Note that for platform applications or IDEs with bundled JREs, it's not really
critical to always be using the latest JRE, since there is no browser plugin,
no server accepting incoming connections (unlike in a J2EE setting), and no
security sandbox that can be "broken out of" (these apps always run with
user-level privileges in any case). The JRE version only really needs to be
updated to take advantage of new features and bugfixes. (IntelliJ, for
instance, is still running on their own customized build of Java 8.)
> Add support for bundling and updating the bundled JRE for Platform
> applications (for Java 9+)
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>
> Key: NETBEANS-1202
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1202
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: platform - Other
> Reporter: Austin Stephens
> Priority: Critical
>
> According to [Oracle ("End of Public
> Updates")|http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html], they do
> not plan on migrating desktops from Java 8 to a later version via auto-update
> and "... encourage application developers to [use the packaging options
> introduced with Java SE
> 9|https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates]
> to repackage and deliver their Java applications as stand-alone applications
> that include their own custom runtimes."
> It would be wonderful if the NetBeans Platform could handle updating the
> bundled JRE (as if it was a Netbeans Module) so it would be less of a
> head-ache to get Java Security updates out and such.
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