Ansible role to install Java

Description

By default Debian and Ubuntu only provide OpenJDK, but sometimes you may want to use the official Oracle JRE/JDK.

This uses the Ubuntu PPA maintained by Webupd8. It works without problems on Debian too.

License

This project is released under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file).

How to use

Installing a Oracle JDK

Override the list java_versions with a list of JDK you want to install.

The valid values are:

• oracle-jdk7-installer (Oracle JDK 7)
• oracle-java6-installer (Oracle JRE 6)
• oracle-java7-installer (Oracle JRE 7)
• oracle-java8-installer (Oracle JRE 8 Preview)
• openjdk-6-jdk (OpenJDK JDK 6)
• openjdk-7-jdk (OpenJDK JDK 7)
• openjdk-6-jre (OpenJDK JRE 6)
• openjdk-6-jre-headless (OpenJDK JRE 6 Headless)
• openjdk-7-jre (OpenJDK JRE 7)
• openjdk-7-jre-headless (OpenJDK JRE 7 Headless)