Will lastest websphere liberty full platform run oracle java 8?

Question

I am looking at the latest websphere liberty 8.5.5.7 full platform ( https://developer.ibm.com/wasdev/downloads/liberty-profile-using-non-eclipse-environments/ ) and I wonder if it can run oracle java 8? I see on the download page that ibms java 8 only supports the web profile but I don't care if i run a jdk from oracle or ibm as long as it is version 8.

Historically websphere has demanded ibms jdk on linux and solaris.

I have search ibms site but not found any answer.

Answer 1

Yes we support running Liberty on non-IBM JVMs, including those from Oracle. As for the downloads from IBM that come bundled with Java 8 you can use that with more than the web profile (you can use the installUtility to download and install the full Java EE 7 platform onto the web profile install).