Need system java

[Enrice]

Recently (actually not that recently ;-) ) support was removed for system Java because of artifactory bundling Java 11 anyway.

I NEED support for system Java mainly because of automatic certificate distribution.

[fraenki]

@Enrice ...and what is your feature request or proposal? :)
I'm asking because I contributed the removal of $manage_java. I'd recommend https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java to manage the system Java.

[Enrice]

@fraenki well, not the management of Java itself is the issue, but the configuration of an external Java as the one to be used. So to speak, an easy way to configure system.yaml (as of artifactory 7), e.g.:

shared:
    javaHome: /usr/lib/jvm/java

[fraenki]

Understood. However, currently system.yaml is not managed by this module for a reason:

artifactory/manifests/config.pp

Lines 173 to 177 in 907ad67

	# Starting with Artifactory 7 the configuration is stored in YAML
	# format. However, these YAML files don't work with augeas, so there
	# is currently no way to implement the password-encryption-hack that
	# is used for legacy versions.
	# TODO: Manage system.yaml, especially the DB configuration.

Not saying that it shouldn't be implemented, but it's some work to do :)

[Enrice]

I see. Thank you.

[alexjfisher]

@fraenki Is the algorithm used to do the encryption known? ie Would it be possible to implement it in a function?

[fraenki]

@alexjfisher I have no idea :(

[deltoura]

Same problem here. We would like to use the system Java because it is configured with our internal CA certificate in its truststore, required to access our LDAP.
The only workaround we found is to add the certificate to the truststore of Artifactory's bundled JDK.
But it would be much more convenient if we could configure Artifactory to use the system JDK.