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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 xoa »

solarkraft wrote: post #48

At which point will they add their proprietary extensions? Am I the only one fearing this? I wouldn't want to depend on a business like Amazon.

>At which point will they add their proprietary extensions? Am I the only one fearing this?

What? OpenJDK is GPL with a class path exception, so software that runs on it can be licensed however but additions/changes to OpenJDK cannot be kept proprietary. Can you please elaborate what you're afraid of there? It's not as if Amazon is the copyright holder and can thus even offer a dual license.

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

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Post by _verandaguy »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #39
fredley wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll take names over alphabet soup. My EBS EC2 machines are not playing nicely with ELB (but my EFS ones are), I think it might be to do with EMR, or maybe EKS.

You could always say: "My elastic block service elastic cloud compute machines are not playing nicely with elastic load balancers (but my elastic file system ones are), I think it might be to do with elastic map reduce, or maybe elastic kubernetes service." No soup.

It feels like English should have a provision to factor out the word "elastic" in this case.

Just assume every word in the sentence is elastic.

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

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Post by moioci »

exabrial wrote: post #68
lenova wrote: post #15

> Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit I really, really wish AWS would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products.

Speaking of, CoveffeJDK hasn't been taken yet.

I think you mean CovfefeJDK.

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

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Post by dixie_land »

mindcrime wrote: post #61
fredley wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll take names over alphabet soup. My EBS EC2 machines are not playing nicely with ELB (but my EFS ones are), I think it might be to do with EMR, or maybe EKS.

I think you need some ECS in that mix as well...

Hmm interestingly they renamed that to Elastic Container Service. It used to be named kinda recursively as EC2 Container Service.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/11/13/introd...

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

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Post by yrro »

fulafel wrote: post #50
Arnt wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So same as rhel openjdk ( https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 ) ?

> Are the binary plugs that Oracle did not release the source supported?

Are the articles that Red Had publishes ever proof read?

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

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Post by coliveira »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #39
fredley wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll take names over alphabet soup. My EBS EC2 machines are not playing nicely with ELB (but my EFS ones are), I think it might be to do with EMR, or maybe EKS.

You could always say: "My elastic block service elastic cloud compute machines are not playing nicely with elastic load balancers (but my elastic file system ones are), I think it might be to do with elastic map reduce, or maybe elastic kubernetes service." No soup.

You nailed it, I hate the tendency of english speakers, specially in tech, to use nonsense acronyms when it would be much easier and understandable to use the word itself, or at least part of it.

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

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Post by pron »

apetresc wrote: post #2

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

OpenJDK is the most "official" Java out there. Oracle develops OpenJDK, and as of JDK 11 all previously commercial features of Oracle JDK have been contributed to OpenJDK, so that now Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are essentially identical[1]

[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/oracle-jdk-rele...

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

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Post by withhighprod »

aranw wrote: post #28
ce4 wrote: post #6

The repo is on Github: https://github.com/corretto

Wow genuinely surprised that AWS is not using CodeCommit

It’s just product and amazon didn’t even dogfood internal with it. The internal tools I heard was the best years ago until google hired the original amazon tooling people and so google is the best now

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

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Post by matrix »

This is good news for Groovy developers since the Groovy project seems to have run into significant roadblocks with migrating to Java 9+. I'd recommend most other developers on the JVM rip that bandaid off now and get onto Java 11 though, because migrating is not going to get any cheaper or easier.

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

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Post by pron »

fnord123 wrote: post #55
aranw wrote: post #26

Surely Amazon Corretto is just going to fracture the Java ecosystem?

It's already split between Java8 laggards and Java11. Spark for example hasn't been able to upgrade to Java9 due to their use of some Unsafe stuff. Hadoop just upgraded from 7 to 8 last year.

Unsafe is still accessible even in JDK 11. May require some command-line flags, though.
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