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Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK

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Re: Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK

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Post by SanderMak »

apetresc wrote: post #2

Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?

Nothing, the big thing here is the long-term support. Multi-platform and production-ready are practically a given for any OpenJDK distro.

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Post by Arnt »

apetresc wrote: post #2

Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?

Lack of long-time support commitment. A lot of java users want to hear someone say "we'll push updates for any and all CVEs for the next forty-two years, and that's a promise".

They may not actually install those updates, but they want to hear someone say that they will exist.

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Post by SanderMak »

thom_nic wrote: post #3

I have not used Java in many years now, but I'm curious if anyone has anecdotal experience using OpenJDK in production? Performance vs Oracle Java, bugs/ idiosyncrasies due to internal API differences, etc?

As of JDK 11, there is feature parity between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK, which is the JDK that most people used until now. In JDK 8, the Oracle version had several closed source additional features (such as Java Flight Recorder and the Z garbage collector). Also, implementations of things like graphics rendering used to be different in Oracle JDK 8 and earlier. That's no longer the case. Oracle JDK and OpenJDK should be drop-in replacements for each other as of JDK 11.

Re: Corretto – No-cost, multiplatform, developer-preview distribution of OpenJDK

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Post by addisonj »

apetresc wrote: post #2

Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?

See this link for context: https://jaxenter.com/end-life-comes-early-jdk-8-140824.html

Tl;Dr: with Oracle changing the release versioning of Java, LTS releases are now essentially a paid product. If you run a large business with a lot of Java that is now a significant new burden to deal with.

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Post by kgoutham93 »

apetresc wrote: post #2

Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?

I don't qualify to answer this... But most enterprises want someone to hold accountable in case of any catastrophic failures.
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