Synology DSM 6.0 beta 2

[simoncn]

(23-01-2016 04:26)Loop4fun Wrote:  Simon, All I want to do is get from Java 7 to Java 8 using the installation manager...!

The good news is that it is now possible to install Java 8 on Intel and ARMv7 platforms. This is a one-step process rather than the current somewhat confusing two-step procedure of installing Java Manager and then downloading and installing Java.

The bad news is that Synology has decided to use OpenJDK instead of Oracle Java. For Intel platforms, this is fine. For ARMv7 platforms, this is not fine because OpenJDK for ARMv7 doesn't have a JIT (just-in-time compiler) and this means performance is 5x slower than Oracle Java. Yo get acceptable performance, the user needs to download the Oracle JDK for ARMv7 and replace the installed Synology OpenJDK with the Oracle JDK they have downloaded.