Adobe ColdFusion sometimes supports newer versions the Oracle JDK with updates and hot fix releases, so many times it’s difficult to keep track of. For clarity, Adobe will support the later minor releases of the major version support that is listed below.
* To clarify further, these are the latest JDK versions supported so we continue to support the earlier JDKs listed under each release. For example, CF 11 is supported with both JDK 7 and 8. In this example if you want to use JDK 8 you must have Update 3 installed which provided the JDK 8 support.
ColdFusion 11
Update 3 and later: JDK 8
Update 2 and earlier: JDK 7
ColdFusion 10
Update 14 and later: JDK 8
Updates 8-13: JDK 7
Update 7 and earlier: JDK 6
ColdFusion 9.0.2
CF 9.0.2 Cumulative Hot Fix 1: JDK 7**
No hot fixes: JDK 6
ColdFusion 9.0.1
Cumulative Hot Fix 4: JDK 7 **
Cumulative Hot Fix 3 and earlier: JDK 6
ColdFusion 9.0
Cumulative Hot Fix 3 and later: JDK 7**
Cumulative Hot Fix 2 and earlier: JDK 6
**JDK 1.7 is only supported on Mac OS X 10.7.3 and later. See this article for more details. ColdFusion 9.0.X does not support Mac OS X 10.7. Therefore, Cumulative hot fix 1 does not certify ColdFusion 9.0.X with JDK 1.7 on Mac OS X.