Hi Alex Thanks for the answer.
I only tried Whitebox with the OpenJDK included in the Live DVD (OpenJDK 7 i presume?), and it did not work. Should have known there was a OpenJDK 8 available. If I install OpenJDK 8, will it break anything on an OsgeoLive install? Pieter On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Alex M <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote: > On 03/23/2016 02:28 PM, Pieter du Plooy wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > Maybe a dumb question. Would be at all possible to replace the OpenJDK > > with Oracle's JDK in order to test Whitebox GAT > > http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/download.shtml ? > > > > It does not work with OpenJDK. > > > > Pieter > > > > > > I have WhiteBox Gat running with OpenJDK8. At least my laptop does not > appear to have Oracle Java installed. I haven't tried any particular > tools besides opening the GUI interface. What is incompatible? > > Otherwise, we could tell you how to do it, but no we are unlikely to > ship Oracle JDK by default. If you look back at our history there was > previously a very large effort to get everything working with OpenJDK so > we could ditch Oracle's JDK. The reasons were both technical (the Oracle > installer was a hassle to manage, and doesn't allow for packaging > dependency) and legal (we didn't know if we had permission to > redistribute) and ethical (it's not open source). > > Thanks, > Alex >
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