There's a new Java 8 update out as of today. Oracle has decided to change its application deployment strategy from providing a standard installer package to an installer application.
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This application will prompt for admin privileges before fully launching.
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Once you provide admin authentication, the application launches.
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You will be prompted to install an Ask.com toolbar. The installation of the toolbar is selected by default.
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It will then tell you how many devices run Java while it installs.
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Once complete, it'll tell you what it's installed.
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It'll then ask you to install the Ask.com toolbar as a Safari extension.
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If you then choose to install the Ask.com toolbar, Safari will look like this.
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YESS!!! I really wanted ask.com Extensions built into Java installers. Thanks for following through on my feature request Oracle!
I like this version of the installation, if you happen to have Apple's Java 6 still installed:
Good Grief! What the he** is wrong with these people!
They obviously just hired some Adobe developers on the cheap!
Goodbye Oracle!
You've crossed the line as far as I'm concerned. This is just utter and complete garbage. Application installer instead of a pkg installer? Prompting to install Safari toolbars? This is moving more into the realm of adware than software. What in the world are they thinking?? Maybe they recruited former Adobe installer developers?
As always Rich, your diligence in keeping us informed on this is appreciated.
@mm2270 at least the JDK for JAVA 8 Update 40 is still a .pkg and doesn't have the Ask toolbar.
Ah, thanks for that info @jhbush1973. Didn't catch that part. So, the above only applies to the JRE installer?
@mm2270 it appears so. Hopefully Rich will have a blog post up and I've filed a support ticket with Oracle under our agreement.
Yeah, issue is, we typically only install the JRE. We don't have much need for the JDK version for our clients. Are we seriously going to need to start doing captures to get Java installers now? If I could convince the org to completely drop using it I would, but of course some web applications require it. Ugh.
I happend to be testing Rich's script today and I can till you that it is not working.
Running script java_8_install_latest.sh... Script exit code: 255 Script result: /dev/disk2 GUID_partition_scheme /dev/disk2s1 Apple_HFS /private/tmp/java_eight.ZAJY installer: Error the package path specified was invalid: ''. "disk2" unmounted. "disk2" ejected.
It looks like it will still download the new installer DMG, but the app as an installer I think is breaking it.
I did run the app and it did NOT prompt me to install ask.com toolbar crap. I will test some more.....
You can drill down into the package contents, there's a pkg in Resources/JavaAppletPlugin.pkg, which I think is the effective payload we want, without any of the interactive and ask.com nonsense
Looks like there is a .pkg in the app bundle:
Oracle Java 1.8.0_40/Java 8 Update 40.app/Contents/Resources/JavaAppletPlugin.pkg
Pretty sure that is the guy we might want to use.
Well, that gives us something to work with, but let's hope some rationale prevails at Oracle and they return to a regular good ol' package installer at some point. I see no reason to move to an .app installer other than arrogance and/or ignorance.
There is a JavaAppletPlugin.pkg inside the .app, and for anyone out there in K12 trying to keep the Pearson monster happy, this does appear to work.
Super timing!
JavaAppletPlugin.pkg does work. I was able to send it out as a policy.
So, does this update only work on Yosemite? On my 10.9.5 Mac it doesn't show up as being an available update.
I see no reason to move to an .app installer other than arrogance and/or ignorance.
+1 arrogance
It appears to work on both Mavericks and Yosemite. It didn't show up as an update for me on Mavericks but I was able to install it from the DMG. Interestingly, I was not prompted to install the Ask toolbar when I ran the installer on my Yosemite machine. It just skipped that step and never installed it.
Just downloaded the latest version to see for myself and confirmed that the application DID NOT ask me to install the Ask.com Toolbar. Makes me wonder if Oracle realized their error early on and removed it...
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8 billion computers run (meh, maybe cumulatively, over the years) run Java...but Oracle can't afford to hire a capable/competent person to create proper platform specific installers. Very McDonalds.
Don
I just downloaded it and it did ask me to install the toolbar on my Mavericks VM so it don't think they've removed it.
the java #toolbargate scandal has begun
