Hey, UniFi, why Java? Or “The Best way to destroy customer trust”

I am using at home Unifi to extend my WiFi through two access points.

I am writing this post as a user who paid good money for these devices and feels betraid and left alone in the dark by Unifi.

While installing the Unifi Controller on  new machine, I am prompted to install Java.

I am forwarded on this page: https://www.java.com/en/download/win10.jsp

 

 

Of course, I know that Oracle changed licensing. Yes, this is supposed to be free for personal use. But I don’t like to support this concept, as I personally think that Java should be free for all.

So, I tried to install OpenJDK, which is free to use for everybody: https://jdk.java.net/java-se-ri/14

And here started the problems: there is just a ZIP archive on that website.

Sooooo, then I googled which environment variables are installed and I set all of them manually. That is a challenge itself, as the OJDK doesn’t seem to come with the required JAR files.

Unfortunately, the Unifi Controller refuses to detect the OpenJDK.

Then I started to google again on how to use Unifi with OpenJDK: Here

As I was assuming, a lot of people are asking the very same thing.

It appears that this is working on Linux, but I could not find any post where somebody said how to make it work with OpenJDK on Windows.

After long searching, I found a post, which promises to explain how to use 3rd party Java implementations: Here

However, my patience was gone I have installed standard Java from Oracle. 🙁

 

@Unifi: get your software independent of Java or provide a completely hussle free solution to use OpenJDK.

 

 

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