Thanks for the heads up! Following these instructions worked: http://www.rpiblog.com/2014/03/installing-oracle-jdk-8-on-raspberry-pi.html
My final question is, since apt-get had me on the latest version of oracle java, why didn’t that work? I’m just concerned that I’m gonna run into an issue in the future when some with some weird issue that will be solved by an update to java but I’ll forget that I pointed the system at a static one in the /opt folder. Any best practice suggestions? I’d prefer to use the apt-get version so it gets updated along with everything else…(maybe that’s dumb)
edit: I found this post in the thread you linked too My.openhab.org is online // iOS app doesn't show sitemap -> Solution: Java update! I take it this is my answer…