Installs a Java. Uses OpenJDK by default but supports installation of Oracle's JDK.

IMPORTANT NOTE As of 26 March 2012 you can no longer directly download the JDK from Oracle's website without using a special cookie. This cookbook uses that cookie to download the oracle recipe on your behalf, but . . .

the java::oracle recipe forces you to set either override the node['java']['oracle']['accept_onerous_download_terms'] to true or set up a private repository accessible by HTTP.

Example

roles/base.rb

default_attributes(
  :java => {
     :oracle => {
       "accept_onerous_download_terms" => true
     }
   }
)

roles/base.rb

default_attributes(
  :java => {
     :jdk => {
       "6" => {
         :x86_64 => {
           :url => "http://hqlprrepo01.hq.un.fao.org/corporate/jdk-6u30-linux-x64.bin"
         }
       }
     }
   }
)

You are most encouraged to voice your complaints to Oracle and/or switch to OpenJDK.

• Debian, Ubuntu
• CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora, Scientific, Amazon
• ArchLinux
• FreeBSD

See attributes/default.rb for default values.

• node["java"]["install_flavor"] - Flavor of JVM you would like installed (oracle or openjdk), default openjdk.
• node['java']['java_home'] - Default location of the "$JAVA_HOME".
• node['java']['bin_cmds'] - binary commands within the JDK that should be symlinked to /usr/bin/
• node['java']['tarball'] - Name of the tarball to retrieve from your corporate repository default jdk1.6.0_29_i386.tar.gz
• node['java']['tarball_checksum'] - Checksum for the tarball, if you use a different tarball, you also need to create a new sha256 checksum
• node['java']['jdk'] - Version and architecture specific attributes for setting the URL on Oracle's site for the JDK, and the checksum of the .tar.gz.
• node['java']['remove_deprecated_packages'] - Removes the now deprecated Ubuntu JDK packages from the system, default false
• node['java']['oracle']['accept_onerous_download_terms'] - Indicates that you accept oracle's EULA

Include the default recipe in a run list, to get java. By default the openjdk flavor of Java is installed, but this can be changed by using the install_flavor attribute.

OpenJDK is the default because of licensing changes made upstream by Oracle. See notes on the oracle recipe below.

This recipe installs the openjdk flavor of Java.

This recipe installs the oracle flavor of Java. Since update JDK 1.6u27 you must use a browser cookie in order to accept Oracle's Terms of Service.

You must specifically set node['java']['oracle']['accept_onerous_download_terms'] to true using an attribute. It is set to false by default. If you do not accept Oracle's onerous terms of service, you must override the url and checksum attribute with your own.

use distribution packages as Oracle changed the licensing terms with JDK 1.6u27 and prohibited the practice for both the debian and EL worlds.

For both debian and centos/rhel, this recipe pulls the binary distribution from the Oracle website, and installs it in the default JAVA_HOME for each distribution. For debian/ubuntu, this is /usr/lib/jvm/default-java. For Centos/RHEL, this is /usr/lib/jvm/java

After putting the binaries in place, the oracle recipe updates /usr/bin/java to point to the installed JDK using the update-alternatives script

This recipe installs the 32-bit Java virtual machine without setting it as the default. This can be useful if you have applications on the same machine that require different versions of the JVM.

The cookbook comes with a Vagrantfile, allowing you to test-drive the installation and configuration with Vagrant, a tool for building virtualized development infrastructures.

First, make sure you have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed

Next, clone this cookbook

You need to download the required third-party cookbooks (unless you already have them in ~/cookbooks).

The easiest way is to use the bundled Berkshelf support:

  berks install --shims ./tmp/cookbooks

The Vagrantfile supports two combinations of Linux distribution and JVM so far:

• Ubuntu Lucid 32 bit, oracle 7 jvm
• CentOS 6 32 bit, oracle 7 jvm

This cookbook includess the "java_ark" LWRP that has been deprecated in favor of the ark cookbook.

Author:: Seth Chisamore (schisamo@opscode.com) Author:: Bryan W. Berry (bryan.berry@gmail.com)

Copyright:: 2008-2012, Opscode, Inc

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