I ran into some issues getting the Lucee Tomcat 8.5 service to start on with Java 10.0.2 on a Windows 2016 Server. I was getting errors in the commons-daemon log file like: CreateJavaVM Failed CreateJavaVM Failed The system cannot find the file specified.

Starting with Java 1.8.0_151 and 1.8.0_152 there is a new somewhat easier way to enable the unlimited strength jurisdiction policy for the JVM. Without enabling this you cannot use AES-256 for example.

First download the JRE, I like to use the server-jre for servers.

With the General Availability release of Java 9 scheduled for today, I thought it would be appropriate to go over the new features that pertain to security.

Implement HTTP/2 Client