[OmniOS-discuss] Upgrading Java to OpenJDK8 - any advice?

[Dan McDonald]

As the first non-upstream-merge change for the r151017 bloody cycle, I'm hoping to update java from openjdk7 to openjdk8.

Now obviously there will be some illumos-omnios factors (poold, the lone java holdout in illumos), but I'm more curious about how you, the community, use openjdk in OmniOS.

Feel free to dump advice on this thread.  I'm nowhere near ready for a bloody update with openjdk8 yet, but since I'm starting, I figure early feedback is better.

Thanks!
Dan