Java compliance - impacts on LANSA
| Date: | 11 January 2017 |
|---|---|
| Product/Release: | LANSA Integrator - All supported versions |
| Abstract: | Impacts on LANSA of Oracle enforcing Java compliance |
| Submitted By: | LANSA Technical Support |
| Updated: | 23 October 2018 |
Updated Compliance Statement:
Further to our original compliance statement below, the latest update
from LANSA is that Oracle have continued to progress their Java SE
compliance and have announced the End of Public Updates for Oracle JDK 8.
Refer to the following Overview page for details:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/index.html
This page contains a link to the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html
LANSA customers who do not want commercial support or enterprise
management tools (*) can instead use Oracle's OpenJDK 8 build.
Oracle
recommends that those choosing not to renew Java SE instead transition to
OpenJDK 8 binaries from the company, before their subscription ends. Doing
so will let users keep running applications uninterrupted.
(*) LANSA
products do not require enterprise management tools.
The Java SE
changes from Oracle have the potential to impact LANSA customers. LANSA will
provide the following product updates:
V14 SP2
-
LANSA will provide a new V14 SP2 DVD spin that ships OpenJDK 8. Installing
LANSA V14 SP2 from this spin will install and configure OpenJDK 8 for use
with LANSA Integrator.
- After installing from this spin, LANSA
deployments will also incorporate OpenJDK 8 when LANSA Integrator is
deployed.
Note: LANSA Composer V7.0 will also ship with OpenJDK 8 on
the client and server.
V13 SP2
- LANSA Integrator
at V13 SP2 level will also be affected by the Oracle Java SE changes.
-
There are no plans to provide a new DVD image for V13 SP2.
- LANSA
customers installing V13 SP2 will be required to download and install
OpenJDK 8 or Oracle JDK 8 themselves.
- LANSA will provide detailed
instructions for the changes required for V13 SP2 to continue to work with
OpenJDK 8.
Original Compliance Statement:
Oracle is approaching Java customer and partners which it claims are
out of compliance on Java. There are many articles online explaining the
development but the following is an extract from one such article on The
Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/
Java SE is free but Java SE Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite are
not. Java SE Suite, for example, costs $300 per named user with a
support bill of $66; there’s a per-processor option of $15,000 with a
$3,300 support bill. Java SE comes with the free JDK and JRE, but
Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite layer in additional capabilities
such as Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder also known as JRockit
Mission Control and JRockit Flight Recorder.
What does this mean for LANSA?
On Windows, customers are required to download Java SE, if they do not already have a supported Java version installed, when they install Visual LANSA.
On IBM i, Java is provided as a licensed IBM product.
Using LANSA Integrator, there is not a requirement for the Advanced Desktop, Advanced or Suite layers. LANSA customers use the JRE to run LANSA Integrator services. LANSA customers use the JDK for Integrator Studio usage. Both of these are free and therefore not affected by the compliance question.