Oracle Database - Can the installed Java version in the xxx/oracle/product/11.2.x.x/jdk/ be upgraded?
<p>By default when you install the Oracle Database, it installs a JDK/JRE into the directory xxx/oracle/product/11.2.x.x/jdk/.</p>

<p>This appears to be hardcoded into the Oracle Tools such as opatch, dbca etc.    i.e. Java is required to support the database management.</p>

<p>With the latest version of Oracle 11.2.0.4.3 the version of Java that is provided is 1.5.0_51.  </p>

<p>Has anyone successfully patched this version of Java to a JDK 6/7/8 recent version?  NB. The PSU updates from Oracle don't appear to patch this.</p>

<p>NB. This question isn't related to the OJVM which runs inside the Oracle Database.  </p>