I tried the package from the PPA mentioned in comment #5, and I am happy to report that it worked fine with a large Swing based application.
However, an application based on JavaFx failed with the following exception: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/event/EventTarget Output of `java -version` openjdk version "1.8.0_01-internal" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_01-internal-b04) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.40-b08, mixed mode) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1341628 Title: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1341628/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
