There are no JRE downloads after Java 8.

You are expected to bundle Java with your application.

Scott


> On Sep 30, 2019, at 12:39 PM, Derik Devecchio <ddevecc...@celestron.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I know that the Netbeans’s forum doesn’t maintain Java.com 
> <http://java.com/>.   But I don’t know anyone else to ask off hand.
> 
> I went to Java.com <http://java.com/> to find out the “latest public stable 
> release”.   I was expecting Java 9 point something.    But I was hoping for 
> 10, 11 or maybe 12.   Low and behold it is still on Java8 u 221?  
> 
> 
> Isn’t Java 9 stable enough for public?   As a person that writes software for 
> the customers of my company, I am loath to write code using a version of Java 
> that won’t be compatible with what most people already have installed on 
> their machine.     And if they don’t have any version of Java installed on 
> their computer, which is increasingly the case,  then my code should be 
> compatible with the JRE they download from the most obvious place, Java.com 
> <http://java.com/>.
> 
> I was just wondering if maybe Java.com <http://java.com/> wasn’t the right 
> place anymore.  It doesn’t seem like the site is stagnate.   8u221 was 
> released just a few months ago.  But why 8?     If anyone has a clue, I would 
> appreciate some enlightenment.
> 
> 
> —
> derik
> 
> P.S.   Great work bringing such a huge project over to the Apache framework.  
>  I thought it would be a lot easier than it is.  I have watched some fo the 
> videos of Gertjan discussing the mind bogglingly large amount of tedious work 
> involved.   I applaud your efforts.

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