# wowza and java8 ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [March 20, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499 "2014-03-20T16:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Vanhaute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Vanhaute](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nicolas_Vanhaute)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/1 "2014-03-20T16:20:15Z")
hi, Wowza works with the new java8 ? with all improvements added, I imagine new wowza version will be launched soon to integrate all these new things ? thanks for info Niko ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/2 "2014-03-20T23:28:58Z")
Niko, I have not heard reports from Engineering or QA on testing with Java 8. I am downloading and will try, which I expect will work. It is unlikely that Wowza will utilize new features of Java 8 for general purposes because there is a business requirement for Wowza Engine to work on Java 1.6. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/3 "2014-03-20T23:46:04Z")
To follow-up, Wowza had no problems starting and doing basic streaming using jdk1.8.0. It should work for all features and functions. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Rob\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@Rob\_Meyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rob_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/4 "2014-09-11T16:41:07Z")
Hi, I am experiencing some problems with Oracle Java 1.8 (I tried both jre 1.8u5 and u20): After I start a stream (for example with the “Test Player”-Feature of the Engine Manager) it will play only for about 10sec. Then it freezes and it is not possible to start another one. Wowza is stuck - the cpu-usage of the wowza java thread goes up to 100% and if I try to restart the Engine it ends with “Killing process (20664) which didn’t stop after 20 seconds”… This happens on my testserver which is located in a VMware virtual machine. The specs of the VM are: SLES 11 SP3, 2GB Ram/1 core, Wowza 4.0.6 with Dev Licence, Java Max Heap Size 793MB Everything works fine with IBM Java 1.6.0 and Oracle Java 1.7.0\_55. Wowzastreamingengine\_error.log reports nothing. As we have to upgrade our live server to Java 1.8 due to the end of support of Java 1.7 it´s quite important to solve this problem. Does anybody have an idea about this? Thanks, Treb ---
**Author:** ![Rob\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@Rob\_Meyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rob_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/5 "2014-09-23T16:12:58Z")
Hi, it seemed as if the problem caused by Oracle Java 8 as my Solr server made some problems as well. I switched to IBM Java which solved my problem - and it is supported by the rpm manager. Anyway thanks for your thoughts, Treb ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/6 "2014-03-28T20:53:23Z")
Hi, If you haven’t already, try updating to the [latest release, 4.0.3,](https://www.wowza.com/docs/software-updates) see if this issue is fixed. This is how to [apply updates.](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-update-your-wowza-streaming-engine-installation) Daren ---
**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 9:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/7 "2014-09-12T09:06:53Z")
Hi Treb, I think we will need to review your /conf and /log folders to better assist in troubleshooting. Can you please zip these folders up and send them, along with a detail description of the issue you are experiencing to support@wowza.com to open a support ticket. Thank you. Salvadore ---
**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/8 "2014-09-23T09:29:10Z")
Okay, thanks for the information and the update. Glad to hear you got something working. Salvadore ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Wardley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@Richard\_Wardley](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Wardley)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-and-java8/37499/9 "2014-03-28T08:58:50Z")
Ive found that the Home / Status - Connections and Usage charts do not display when Wowza is using JDK 8 but with 1.7\_51 its fine. Saying that, it appeared to stream fine, and the application monitoring charts were all fine with jdk 8 as well - odd. Rich