Java on App Service: Updates and Improvements available
Published date: 24 May, 2019
We have applied a host of improvements, bug fixes and runtime version updates to the Java images on App Service Linux!
- All JRE and Tomcat images now have jCmd for Java Flight Recorder, a profiling and debugging tool
- Documentation will be published on the Java developer guide soon
- All Tomcat images now have a servlet filter that provides access to Easy Auth claims and other security-related Tomcat APIs (documentation)
- The Java 8 and 11 images have been updated to 8u212 and 11u3 respectively
- Log file names will now contain the Linux host’s name (host’s hostname) instead of the website_instance_id
- The Wildfly 14 image (currently in preview) has been updated to JRE 8u212, includes jCmd and has a host of bug fixes
For more details, see the Java developer guide. To get started, follow the quickstart for Java on App Service Linux.