Oracle Java 8 - Possible to check if providing local content is still necessary?

[PS_Alex]

Hello!

Looking at the Supported Products List (https://patchmypc.com/supported-products), there's a note for "Oracle Java 8" that it requires a manual download.

But it appears that the same product is available through Winget. Looking at the manifest from the Winget community repository (https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/o/Oracle/JavaRuntimeEnvironment/8.0.4210.9/Oracle.JavaRuntimeEnvironment.installer.yaml), the URL listed in it is reachable, and it does not seems like it requires any kind of authentication.

Would it be possible to verify if Oracle Java 8 could download and update without having us to provide a local content?

Thanks!

[Andrew Jimenez (Patch My PC)]

We are actually going to switch this app off of local content, and are planning on doing so with the next release. The original reason for the local content was to ensure that customers didn't auto-enable the product without a license. However, we now have other controls to block auto-enable for products, so we will turn that on for Java 8, and make it not a local content product. I believe the next release is scheduled for October, additionally we are going to improve the pre-install script for that app as well.

[PS_Alex]

We'll be watching the catalog updates then!
Thanks Andrew!