Other B4A Java path

[drgottjr]

only 1 post that i can find re: java path

what should my java path be? i occasionally receive updates from oracle. i download and install them.
today's update had a message:
java 8 update 31
java 8 update 73
were out-of-date. oracle wanted to uninstall them.
in general i would say ok, but then i thought, what does b4a expect as my java path? so i
looked: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_09\bin\javac.exe.
that sounds really old (as if i would know).

today's update was 8.111. so i happened to look for bin\javac.exe in that directory.
no javac.exe there. i looked for bin\javac.exe in the 8.31 and 8.73 directories. not there either.
of course, 1.7.0_09 is there, happy as a clam, and my b4a stuff seemes to build fine.
do i need to see about finding a newer javac.exe?

i have no idea what oracle does when it updates java. i assume it knows what it's looking
for. thanks for any words of wisdom
-go

 

[fixit30]

I'm guessing that it was your JRE that was updated, not your JDK?

 

[drgottjr]

thanks, but my concern was whether or not my B4A java path (\jdk1.7.0_09\bin\javac.exe) is what it should be. if B4A is happy with it, i'm happy with it. if B4A prefers something in a nice 1.8.xxx, i'll adjust my path (assuming i actually have the javac.exe that B4A wants). which version of the jdk does B4A currently want?

 

[DonManfred]

1.8