Regarding the announced end-of-life of Java 8, for most customers the concern is that there are no more free auto-updates available for Java 8 JRE; i.e., keeping their systems up-to-date with the latest security fixes from Oracle. Niagara Web Launcher is provided to support customers affected by this change. Niagara Web Launcher will not be affected by the end-of-life of Java 8. The solution provided with Web Launcher is that it actually contains an up-to-date version of the Java 8 JRE (licensed and distributed by Tridium). Web Launcher supports the following Niagara releases:

For users, transitioning to Web Launcher should be easy since the web client application provides an installer which downloads and launches a program that opens the application in a separate window instead of in a browser.

Usage information for both features is provided in this guide.