Currently no plans to have eap with java 8 on z or p. However, there is java openj9 8. Investigate switching from eap to java and where applicable updating from 8 to 11.

java 11:

• v3/plugins/redhat/vscode-xml/0.11.0/meta.yaml --> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-xml says JDK8+ for 0.11.0
• v3/plugins/redhat/dependency-analytics/0.0.13a/meta.yaml -> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.fabric8-analytics any JDK 8+ works for 0.0.13, but see also CRW-943
• v3/plugins/sonarsource/sonarlint-vscode/0.0.2a/meta.yaml --> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SonarSource.sonarlint-vscode JDK 8 or 11 for newer release 1.15.0
• v3/plugins/redhat/vscode-apache-camel/0.0.22a/meta.yaml --> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-apache-camel JDK 8 or 11, no EAP needed newer release 0.0.23
• v3/plugins/redhat/vscode-wsdl2rest/0.0.11a/meta.yaml --> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.vscode-wsdl2rest JDK 8 or 11, no EAP needed

java 8:

• v3/plugins/redhat/java8/0.62.0/meta.yaml
• v3/plugins/redhat/java/0.62.0/meta.yaml