Please advice if a JRE 1.8.X or JDK 1.8.X Recommended for Wildfly 10.0.0

[ray2017]

Please advice if a JDK or a JRE is recommended for Wildfly. Is there a release note or certification matrix available to check the compatibility.

[lafr]

For Wildfly 10 it is mandatory to use Java 8. See the release announcement at WildFly 10 Final is now available! · WildFly .

[jaikiran]

The title of this topic steals the focus from the real question

BUNTY RAY wrote:

Please advice if a JDK or a JRE is recommended for Wildfly.

You don't need a JDK to run WildFly 10. You can just use a JRE.

[ray2017]

Hi Jai,

I realized my topic heading is confusing. Thanks for correcting.

When I look int o EAP 7 or 6 supported configuration, it always recommend to use a JDK instead of JRE.

e.g.  JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7 Supported Configurations - Red Hat Customer Portal

So dont you think running a application server with a JRE is a bad idea.?

[abhijithumbe]

You can use JDK or JRE, its upto you. But JDK provides some additional tools like jstack,jconsole,jmap,jvisualvm,..etc which are not shipped with JRE. These tools are helpful for monitoring/troubleshooting purposes. Because of that normally its recommended to use JDK.