$ apk add --update curl

$ curl -Ls https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/releases/download/2.21-r2/glibc-2.21-r2.apk > /tmp/glibc-2.21-r2.apk &&\
	apk add --allow-untrusted /tmp/glibc-2.21-r2.apk

$ curl -Ls https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/releases/download/2.21-r2/glibc-2.21-r2.apk > /tmp/glibc-2.21-r2.apk &&\
    apk add --allow-untrusted /tmp/glibc-2.21-r2.apk &&\
    mkdir -p /opt &&\
    curl -jkLH "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" -o java.tar.gz\
    http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/${JAVA_VERSION_MAJOR}u${JAVA_VERSION_MINOR}-b${JAVA_VERSION_BUILD}/${JAVA_URL_ELEMENT}/${JAVA_PACKAGE}-${JAVA_VERSION_MAJOR}u${JAVA_VERSION_MINOR}-linux-x64.tar.gz &&\
    echo "$JAVA_SHA256_SUM  java.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - &&\
    gunzip -c java.tar.gz | tar -xf - -C /opt && rm -f java.tar.gz &&\

$ rm -rf /opt/jre/lib/plugin.jar \
     /opt/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar \
     /opt/jre/bin/javaws \
     /opt/jre/lib/javaws.jar \
     /opt/jre/lib/desktop \
     /opt/jre/plugin \
     /opt/jre/lib/deploy* \
     /opt/jre/lib/*javafx* \
     /opt/jre/lib/*jfx* \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libdecora_sse.so \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libprism_*.so \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libfxplugins.so \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libglass.so \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libgstreamer-lite.so \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libjavafx*.so \
     /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libjfx*.so &&\
  apk del curl &&\
  rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*

ENV JAVA_HOME /opt/jre
ENV PATH ${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin

docker run -it --rm wrlennon/alpine-java8-jdk java -version