[Info-vax] HPE ever release V/I64 JRE V8.0 kit?

[Stephen Hoffman]

Quoting from the previous September 2018 thread by the OP on this same 
question:

"The JDK alleges it's possible to build a JRE from the JDK, but I 
haven't dived into that challenge.  Obviously the preferred approach 
would be for HPE to offer the JRE :-)"

Maybe dive in and determine what's available within the JDK kit, or if 
y'all want a separate and pre-generated JRE as you've requested, or 
want better vendor doc for the kits, call the vendor (VSI or HPE) and 
log a request.

Unfortunately and inferring from other postings such as the OpenSSL 
thread from the OP, the site(s) involved here do seem to lack vendor 
support for OpenVMS, and which is already causing problems.

Things'll get a little more sticky with the HPE OpenVMS I64 V8.4 
release as HPE ends the new-patches support less than two years from 
now.  HPE is delivering on their roadmap to exit the OpenVMS business.

As for diving in locally and researching this, I don't run any Java 
apps on the local systems—not in some years—and haven't had the 
inclination to license and download and rummage the Oracle Java kits.



On 2019-05-11 19:55:07 +0000, hst17315 at gmail.com said:

> I believe there are a a couple of COM  files in the 8.0 JDK you use to 
> build the  JRE savesets

Seems likely...

Though the OP is already aware of this, DDG found the following:

https://www.hpe.com/global/java/download/ivms/1.8.0/index.html

Quoting from the above index page:

> J2SE™ Development Kit (JDK) 8.0-144
> 
> The JDK 8.0-144 kit implements the Java SE 8.0 (a.k.a. 1.8.0), and is 
> based on Oracle's Java™ Standard Edition 8.0_144 Solaris Reference 
> Release. It passes all the tests in Sun's Java Compatibility Kit test 
> suite.
> 
> The JDK includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) although the JRE is 
> also available as a separate kit. However, procedures are provided with 
> the JDK to allow developers to create a JRE that can be bundled with 
> their applications for re-distribution (please note that redistribution 
> of the JDK is not permitted).
> 
> The JDK 8.0-144 kit is available for OpenVMS Integrity servers Version 
> 8.4 and higher. This includes HPE OpenVMS version 8.4 for HPE Integrity 
> server systems and OpenVMS version 8.4-1H1 and higher from VMS Software 
> Inc."

That "also" above may have been meant to be "not", too.

Docs:
https://www.hpe.com/global/java/documentation/1.8.0/ivms/docs/user_guide.html
https://www.hpe.com/global/java/documentation/1.8.0/ivms/docs/release_notes.html 


The JRE generation procedures appear either undocumented, or obscurely 
documented.  Nothing obvious from searching the above doc for JRE, 
unfortunately.

Which usually means downloading the kit, and diving in.



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