How to install Oracle Java 7 in an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk instance

Question

Has anyone one come up with a good config script to install Oracle Java 1.7 in to an Elastic Beanstalk instance using the config files stored in .ebextensions. I am using a tomcat7 version of elastic beanstalk and I was able to install openJDK with yum using the following:

packages:
  yum:
    java-1.7.0-openjdk: []
    java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel: []

commands:
  use_java7:
    command: alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java

How ever I would like to use Oracle Java 1.7 not OpenJDK and yum does not have that in it's repo natively.

Answer 1

try this configuration file

files:
  "/home/ec2-user/install-oracle-jdk.sh":
    mode: "000755"
    owner: ec2-user
    group: ec2-user
    content: |
      #!/usr/bin/env bash
      wget -O jdk-7u25-linux-x64.rpm --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header 'Cookie:gpw_e24=http://www.oracle.com; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie' 'http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.rpm'      
      rpm -Uvh /home/ec2-user/jdk-7u25-linux-x64.rpm
      alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/default/bin/java 3
      alternatives --set java /usr/java/default/bin/java

commands:
  execute-install-oracle-jdk-script:
    command: ./install-oracle-jdk.sh
    cwd: /home/ec2-user

Answer 2

You could alternately install it as you would normally do and use this ami as your ami for creating new ec2 instances.