From the documentation for Elasticsearch 2.3 : Elasticsearch requires at least Java 7. Specifically as of this writing, it is recommended that you use the Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_73. I notice that the documentation doesn’t recommend at least version 1.8.0_73; it recommends that specific version.…

Is there anything wrong with using the latest JDK 8 release?

nik9000 (Nik Everett) July 27, 2016, 9:34pm 2

Latest 1.8 should be just fine.

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Is there anything wrong with using the latest JDK 8 release?

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