Red Hat Runtimes , JBoss EAP support on JDK 6 / JDK 7

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)

Issue

Red Hat Runtimes , JBoss EAP support on JDK 6 / JDK 7

Resolution

Red Hat OpenJDK 1.6 & 1.7 [1], Oracle JDK 1.6 & 1.7 [2], IBM JDK 1.6 & 1.7 [3] and HP JDK 1.7 are all end of life, as a result EAP 6 requires one of the supported JDK 8 listed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6 Supported Configurations to be supported.

[1] OpenJDK Life Cycle and Support Policy
[2] Content from www.oracle.com is not included.Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap
[3] Content from www.ibm.com is not included.Supported IBM Java Development Kit (JDK) Versions by IBM

Root Cause

The JDK needs to be supported by its vendor for EAP to be supported since issues could require a fix in either layer and an underlying layer no longer supported makes this not possible for the stack to be supported.

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