I tried moving to Java8 on one machine and found I had to update the jenkins-slave.xml file because it had the full path to java.exe. Other than that, it seems to be going smoothly.
On Wed Jan 21 2015 at 1:46:46 PM felix schwitzer <flx107...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI: > > Today I tried to connect my Win7-Java8 slave with my master (ubuntu1404 > with OpenJDK7) and > I was not able to connect, the slave gave an NPE-exception. > After upgrading my java8 (Oracle), reconnecting worked fine. > So there may be some issues, but it looks to me that there are some > Java8-releases not > working correct. If I remember right Java8-36 did not work, but Java8-37 > did) > > regards > Felix > > > On 2015-01-21 03:33, Slide wrote: > > Mark, > > Thanks for the info! Much appreciated! > > Slide > > On Tue Jan 20 2015 at 7:01:53 PM Mark Waite <mark.earl.wa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have a master running Java 7 (Ubuntu 14.04) with Windows slaves running >> Java 8 and have not detected any issues with that configuration. My >> Windows machines include a Windows 7 x86, Windows 7 x64, Windows 8 x64, and >> Windows Home Server 2011. >> >> The Windows machines have both Java 7 and Java 8 installed so that I >> can specify which JDK should be used for a specific job. The "System >> Information" for the machines shows that they are running Java 8 as their >> java.home. >> >> Mark Waite >> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've started getting notices on my Windows 7 slave machines that Java7 >>> is "not the latest release." When clicking the icon in the system tray it >>> wants me to upgrade to Java8. I have no problem ignoring these little >>> messages, but was wondering if there would be any issues if the master is >>> running Java7 and the slaves were running Java8. I seem to remember (though >>> I can't find it now) some issues relating to Java8 with Jenkins, so I just >>> wanted to check to see. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> slide >>> >> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVfDZWfd44RcxxhZhs-Pk3FMeS4NOijt%3Ds%3D2xCYo9SuL0w%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVfDZWfd44RcxxhZhs-Pk3FMeS4NOijt%3Ds%3D2xCYo9SuL0w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks! >> Mark Waite >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtG-dzuujeMVqhqiEFkwvXwHZK9wHzSA3nLkiOZ7Q_yxvg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAO49JtG-dzuujeMVqhqiEFkwvXwHZK9wHzSA3nLkiOZ7Q_yxvg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVdE%2B-YwcTMbPeaVh-0b1-gNR8Vst%2Bv4fexYWFEQ2aR7%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVdE%2B-YwcTMbPeaVh-0b1-gNR8Vst%2Bv4fexYWFEQ2aR7%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/54C01028.1070005%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/54C01028.1070005%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPiUgVd5h%2BonGeamDZ0Qg4uutL3RX%3DkE4Ft5BZXyzOpmBK2TeQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
