JRE-friendlier download page

[rimas-kudelis]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The process of downloading JRE (not JDK) from Adoptium currently seems overly complicated, because you have to:

1. Go to Adoptium home page
2. Click "Other platforms and versions"
3. Explicitly change the selection of the "Package Type" from "JDK" to either "JRE" or "All"
4. Figure out which of the several files you want to download

Furthermore, there is no obvious way to even link to the download page with JRE downloads initially visible.

Describe the solution you'd like

A couple simple ideas to make this user experience better:

1. provide both – JDK and JRE – download links for the detected platform on the homepage (instead of just JDK, as it is now)
2. disable automatic filtering by "Package Type" on the Latest Releases page. Perhaps filter the list by platform by default instead

A slightly more complex solution: build a simple landing page for downloading JRE specifically. Something akin to java.com, but less corporate and friendlier to end-users. In fact, your current home page is pretty much that already, except it points to JDK and not JRE.

Additional context

I'm raising this because I couldn't find an end-user friendly JRE download page that the application developers could link their users to. Java.com still offers version 8, and your "Latest Releases" page just looks overly complicated from an end-user perspective.

[xavierfacq]

Hi,

A first step could be to remove the default filter by "Package Type" and set the selector to "Any". (your point 2)

Regarding the point 1, the home page has only one big button, it may be strange to have 2 links into the same big button.

[xavierfacq]

Hi @rimas-kudelis

We have just released some new features, you should be able to have a direct link to JRE, for the OS and arch you want, and bookmark it:

e.g. https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?os=windows&arch=x64&package=jre&version=latest

Let me know if it's a good solution or if we have to brainstorm a little :smile:

Xavier

[rimas-kudelis]

Hi @xavierfacq, thanks! I don't even remember why I filed this bug, but this looks like a step in the right direction. One thing that's still obviously missing is an automatic filter by user's OS and platform. Right now the link either has to specify these fields, or they default to "All", unlike your homepage, which defaults to my actual OS.

Although if you went with (unnumbered) option 3 in my initial post – a separate "Download JRE" landing page akin to the current "Download JDK" homepage, it would be even nicer. It could be accessible under https://adoptium.net/jre/, for example.