SapMachine is maintained and supported by SAP, so it is the OpenJDK 11 release best supported by SAP for SAP GUI. If both Java and JavaFX are installed, install SAP GUIįor more details, please see below the jump.įor information on how to get and configure the SAP GUI installer, please see my earlier post on the topic as these details have not changed.Īs of SAP GUI 7.50 rev 5, SAP GUI supports Java 11, with the preferred Java 11 release being the latest SapMachine OpenJDK 11 release.Verifies that both Java and JavaFX are installed.If JavaFX is not installed, install the latest release of OpenJFX.If Java is not installed, install the latest release of SapMachine JDK.With this in mind, it’s possible to build a package that does the following: If using any Java 11 release, OpenJFX will need to be installed for SAP GUI to successfully run. In my testing, which was limited to “Launch SAP GUI and see if it runs”, I found SAP GUI 7.50 rev 5 is able to run on the following Java releases: With all the changes, how should SAP GUI now be packaged for installation? Without question, the main challenge for deployment here is going to be the Java component. JavaFX is bundled with Java JDK 8, so installing Oracle’s Java JDK 8 handles both the Java and JavaFX requirements. That said, SAP GUI also still works with Oracle’s Java JDK 8 as of the release of SAP GUI 7.50 rev 5.
Installation is performed by uncompressing into the following directory on macOS: Instead, each is distributed via compressed files. What do SapMachine JDK 11 and JavaFX have in common? Among other things, neither have a native installer for macOS. Instead, JavaFX has been split off into its own open source project called OpenJFX and is now a separate install. Meanwhile, a Java library named JavaFX used by SAP GUI is no longer being bundled as part of Java 11. More specifically, the SAP GUI folks are recommending the use of SAP’s own SapMachine Java JDK 11 release. However, the SAP GUI developers are now recommending the use of OpenJDK 11 in place of Oracle’s Java JDK 11. One of the consequences of that decision by Oracle is that SAP GUI 7.50 rev 5 is the first version of SAP GUI to support Java 11. Since then Oracle has made an announcement that the use of Oracle’s Java 11 JDK is no longer free if you’re using it for production work. A while back, I wrote a post on building a SAP GUI installer for macOS, where SAP GUI needed to have Oracle’s Java 8 JDK as a pre-requisite.
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