diff --git a/docs/reference/setup/as-a-service.asciidoc b/docs/reference/setup/as-a-service.asciidoc
index dfaa3e6f2e7..1fbfdf6bf04 100644
--- a/docs/reference/setup/as-a-service.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/setup/as-a-service.asciidoc
@@ -22,13 +22,28 @@ Each package features a configuration file, which allows you to set the followin
 `WORK_DIR`::              Work directory, defaults to `/tmp/elasticsearch`
 `CONF_DIR`::              Configuration file directory (which needs to include `elasticsearch.yml` and `logging.yml` files), defaults to `/etc/elasticsearch`
 `CONF_FILE`::             Path to configuration file, defaults to `/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml`
-`ES_JAVA_OPTS`::          Any additional java options you may want to apply
+`ES_JAVA_OPTS`::          Any additional java options you may want to apply. This may be useful, if you need to set the `node.name` property, but do not want to change the `elasticsearch.yml` configuration file, because it is distributed via a provisioning system like puppet or chef. Example: `ES_JAVA_OPTS="-Des.node.name=search-01"`
 `RESTART_ON_UPGRADE`::    Configure restart on package upgrade, defaults to `false`. This means you will have to restart your elasticsearch instance after installing a package manually. The reason for this is to ensure, that upgrades in a cluster do not result in a continouos shard reallocation resulting in high network traffic and reducing the response times of your cluster.
 
 ==== Debian/Ubuntu
 
 The debian package ships with everything you need as it uses standard debian tools like update `update-rc.d` to define the runlevels it runs on. The init script is placed at `/etc/init.d/elasticsearch` is you would expect it. The configuration file is placed at `/etc/default/elasticsearch`.
 
+===== Installing the oracle JDK
+
+The usual recommendation is to run the Oracle JDK with elasticsearch. However Ubuntu and Debian only ship the OpenJDK due to license issues. You can easily install the oracle installer package though. In case you are missing the `add-apt-repository` command under Debian GNU/Linux, make sure have at least Debian Wheezy and the package `python-software-properties` installed
+
+[source,sh]
+--------------------------------------------------
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
+java -version
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+The last command should verify a successful installation of the Oracle JDK.
+
+
 ==== RedHat/Centos/Fedora
 
 RedHat based distributions are using `chkconfig` to enable and disable services. The init script is at `/etc/init.d/elasticsearch`, where as the configuration file is placed at `/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch`.