Synology NAS: Java 7 or Java 8?

[tarnkappe]

Currently I am using minimserver with Java SE embedded 7 on my Synology DS213+. Now there appeared Java version 8 in the package center. Is it recommended to upgrade to this? Or might there be some incompatibilities?

Thanks,
Gert

[simoncn]

(23-03-2014 14:38)tarnkappe Wrote:  Currently I am using minimserver with Java SE embedded 7 on my Synology DS213+. Now there appeared Java version 8 in the package center. Is it recommended to upgrade to this? Or might there be some incompatibilities?

Thanks,
Gert

Java 8 should be compatible with MinimServer. I checked the release notes and I didn't see anything that looked like it would cause a problem.

Please let me know whether this works OK for you.

[tarnkappe]

Today I have found the time to install the embedded java jdk version 8 on my DS231+ (power pc). First I removed the java 7 package, downloaded the oracle jdk, placed the tar.gz file into a folder /public that I had created for the java installation process and that has to be writable for everybody, and then installed the java package version 8 from http://packages.pcloadletter.co.uk/.)

As far as I can tell, Minimserver does run fine with this. (I did listen to 3 albums stored as flac, transcoded to lpcm24 on the fly.)

The only disadvantage is that for java 7 there exists the smaller eJRE to download with 31,8 MB, but für java 8 oracle does only offer the full eJDK that is 96,9 MB. (At least I did not find the pure java runtime environment 8).

[simoncn]

(18-04-2014 18:02)tarnkappe Wrote:  Today I have found the time to install the embedded java jdk version 8 on my DS231+ (power pc). First I removed the java 7 package, downloaded the oracle jdk, placed the tar.gz file into a folder /public that I had created for the java installation process and that has to be writable for everybody, and then installed the java package version 8 from http://packages.pcloadletter.co.uk/.)

As far as I can tell, Minimserver does run fine with this. (I did listen to 3 albums stored as flac, transcoded to lpcm24 on the fly.)

The only disadvantage is that for java 7 there exists the smaller eJRE to download with 31,8 MB, but für java 8 oracle does only offer the full eJDK that is 96,9 MB. (At least I did not find the pure java runtime environment 8).

Thanks, this is good news!