I tried moving to Java8 on one machine and found I had to update the jenkins-slave.xml file because it had the full path to java.exe. Other than that, it seems to be going smoothly.
On Wed Jan 21 2015 at 1:46:46 PM felix schwitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI: > > Today I tried to connect my Win7-Java8 slave with my master (ubuntu1404 > with OpenJDK7) and > I was not able to connect, the slave gave an NPE-exception. > After upgrading my java8 (Oracle), reconnecting worked fine. > So there may be some issues, but it looks to me that there are some > Java8-releases not > working correct. If I remember right Java8-36 did not work, but Java8-37 > did) > > regards > Felix > > > On 2015-01-21 03:33, Slide wrote: > > Mark, > > Thanks for the info! Much appreciated! > > Slide > > On Tue Jan 20 2015 at 7:01:53 PM Mark Waite <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have a master running Java 7 (Ubuntu 14.04) with Windows slaves running >> Java 8 and have not detected any issues with that configuration. My >> Windows machines include a Windows 7 x86, Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64, and >> Windows Home Server 2011. >> >> The Windows machines have both Java 7 and Java 8 installed so that I >> can specify which JDK should be used for a specific job. The "System >> Information" for the machines shows that they are running Java 8 as their >> java.home. >> >> Mark Waite >> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Slide <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've started getting notices on my Windows 7 slave machines that Java7 >>> is "not the latest release." When clicking the icon in the system tray it >>> wants me to upgrade to Java8. I have no problem ignoring these little >>> messages, but was wondering if there would be any issues if the master is >>> running Java7 and the slaves were running Java8. I seem to remember (though >>> I can't find it now) some issues relating to Java8 with Jenkins, so I just >>> wanted to check to see. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> slide >>> >> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVfDZWfd44RcxxhZhs-Pk3FMeS4NOijt%3Ds%3D2xCYo9SuL0w%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVfDZWfd44RcxxhZhs-Pk3FMeS4NOijt%3Ds%3D2xCYo9SuL0w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks! >> Mark Waite >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtG-dzuujeMVqhqiEFkwvXwHZK9wHzSA3nLkiOZ7Q_yxvg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtG-dzuujeMVqhqiEFkwvXwHZK9wHzSA3nLkiOZ7Q_yxvg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVdE%2B-YwcTMbPeaVh-0b1-gNR8Vst%2Bv4fexYWFEQ2aR7%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVdE%2B-YwcTMbPeaVh-0b1-gNR8Vst%2Bv4fexYWFEQ2aR7%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/54C01028.1070005%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/54C01028.1070005%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVd5h%2BonGeamDZ0Qg4uutL3RX%3DkE4Ft5BZXyzOpmBK2TeQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
