2015-12-06 23:52 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]>: > > But my Java version is 7. Is something going wrong here? > > The default runtime is still Java 7. You can switch to Java 8 by using > update-java-alternatives. For example: > > sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64 >
Works like a charm. > > But for Java 8 I need to install unstable packages I understood. Or am > > I mistaken? > > openjdk-8 as found in unstable has been rebuilt for Jessie and is > available from the jessie-backports repository. This backport is > perfectly suitable for a stable environment. > That worked also. > > That explains it: the Debian distribution of Java is different as the > > Oracle one. > > Indeed, Oracle bundles several things that you'll find in separate > packages in Debian (openjdk-<n>-jdk, visualvm, openjfx, icedtea-web) > I installed also the openjdk. Now I can start writing JavaFX applications. -- Cecil Westerhof
