Does BO 4.2 SP8 support Java11?

Question

I want to upgrade BusinessObjects from 4.2 SP2 to 4.2 SP8. I am currently using Java8 and going to upgrade to Java11. Are these compatible with each other?

Answer 1

It looks to me the highest version supported in 4.2 and 4.3 is Java 8 according to their respective Product Availability Matrix documents...

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 Supported Platforms (PAM)

{SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 Supported Platforms (PAM)} https://support.sap.com/content/dam/launchpad/en_us/pam/pam-essentials/SBOP_BI_43.pdf )

Have a look for yourself. I could be reading it wrong.

SAP is moving away needing Java at all and recommends you switch to the HTML interface for Web Intelligence. This blog post goes into this topic in detail.

When we upgraded from 4.1 SP06 Patch 4 to 4.2 SP07 Patch 4 recently we just switched all users over to HTML in order to not have to mess with Java anymore.