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I am developing in Visual COBOL 3.0 for Eclipse. I create simple Cobol programs that I compile to Java (jar-file) and use as a library in my application. I have no problem running with Oracle's JRE, but the program seem to freeze when I run it with Open JDK 8 (JRE downloaded from https://adoptopenjdk.net/).

I run my application with this command line:
java -Djava.library.path="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\bin64" -jar <my jar>

Should I be able to run under OpenJDK? Do I need to compile the library differently?

I am developing in Visual COBOL 3.0 for Eclipse. I create simple Cobol programs that I compile to Java (jar-file) and use as a library in my application. I have no problem running with Oracle's JRE, but the program seem to freeze when I run it with Open JDK 8 (JRE downloaded from https://adoptopenjdk.net/).

I run my application with this command line:
java -Djava.library.path="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\bin64" -jar <my jar>

Should I be able to run under OpenJDK? Do I need to compile the library differently?

The first product version to support OpenJDK is Visual COBOL V5.0 and in fact the product is now shipped with the AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK. Visual COBOL 3.0 does not support OpenJDK.

Here is the text from the 5.0 documentation.

Software requirements

  • Java 8 (64-bit) is required to run the Eclipse IDE. The minimum recommended version is AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK 8 (u202) with Hotspot, which the Windows product installs automatically. Java 8 (32 or 64-bit versions), and Java 11 (64-bit version only) are supported for executing JVM COBOL code and for native COBOL and Java interoperability. You can download AdoptOpenJDK's OpenJDK 8 with Hotspot from AdoptOpenJDK's Web site and unpack the archive anywhere on your machine.
    Note: Eclipse does not run using Java 11.
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