VSI Availability Manager V4 for Windows and Java release

[m_detommaso]

VSI released Availability Manager V4 for Windows 10 or later a few days ago.

On page 18 of the product installation manual (Chapter 3. Data Analyzer and Data Server Installation on Windows
Systems) it says:

"Warning: VSI Availability Manager requires Oracle JDK8-64 bits or later to be installed on the system."

My Windows system had Oracle_jdk-23_windows-x64 installed but Availability Manager refused to start warning that Java 8 was not installed on the PC.

I had to uninstall version 23 and install Oracle jdk-8u421-windows-x64.

Is this a mistake in the manual or do I need to make special (and undocumented) settings to use a version of Oracle JDK higher than 8?

Does anyone know if there is a plan to support OpenJDK as a replacement for Oracle JDK ?

Thank you in advance,
/Maurizio

[arne_v]

Java 23 should meet the "Java 8 or later requirement".

Oracle Java vs OpenJDK should not make a difference. It is same code base just different license.

If I were to make a wild guess then the availability manager cannot handle the change in Java version numbering scheme (from 1.X to X):

System,getProperty("java.version")

returns 1.8.0_432 in Java 8

return 23.0.1 in Java 23

But that is just a guess - you will need to wait for VSI for a more authoritative answer.