Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
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Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
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#2"Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK)."
I'm not sure how I never heard about this before now. Is anyone out there using this over other JDKs?
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#3"Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK)." I'm not sure how I never heard about this before now. Is anyone out there using this over other JDKs?
This has been around for a few years and was one of the first so I think it is actually fairly widely used. It was the one I adopted for our products and I have stuck with it. I see it used a lot elsewhere too.
That said, it depends a bit which OS you are on. The Linux distros have gotten a lot better with their OpenJDK support in their package managers. So if I am using a bistro with the OpenJDK version I want, I will use that now.
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#4"Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK)." I'm not sure how I never heard about this before now. Is anyone out there using this over other JDKs?
It's my preferred one, the 'mystery meat' scandal that hit adoptopenjdk showed me the importance of accountability.
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#5Totally off-topic but Corretto is the Italian word for a coffee with some liquor added, usually grappa (but it can be cognac, whisky etc). It also means "right" or "correct".
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#6Timely or topical, considering that O is now auditing Java.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/22/oracle_starts_to_incl...
If you're not familiar with O, or wondering why an innocuous statement like the above strikes fear into people, it's not about just licensing Java. It's about their extortionate tactics and how they try to catch you in gray areas due to ambiguous wording in their terms and conditions, and demand fees for violating them.
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Re: Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
#8Main Page:
https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/faqs/
Downloads: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-18-ug/d...
Q: How is Corretto different from OpenJDK?
A: Corretto is a distribution of Open JDK with patches included by Amazon that are not yet integrated in the corresponding OpenJDK update projects. We focus on patches that improve performance or stability in OpenJDK, chosen based on Amazon's observations running large services.
Q: What kinds of patches does Amazon intend to include in Corretto?
A: Patches will include security fixes, performance enhancements (e.g., speeding up frequently-used functions), garbage collection scheduling, and preventing out-of-memory situations, as well as improved monitoring, reporting, and thread management.
Re: Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
#9"Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK)." I'm not sure how I never heard about this before now. Is anyone out there using this over other JDKs?
I’ve been favoring it for a while due to the clear support responsibility as a heavy AWS user, and avoiding Oracle licensing shenanigans around OpenJDK (one of their salescritters tried the “we notice you use OpenJDK a lot…” pushes insinuating that licenses might be required).
Re: Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
#10"Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK)." I'm not sure how I never heard about this before now. Is anyone out there using this over other JDKs?
We use Amazon Corretto for our bootstrapped, profitable SaaS.
The reason is that we host on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and this is the Java distribution that is supplied by default on Elastic Beanstalk's Java-based images.
Amazon Corretto is, for us, unremarkable, in a very positive way. Unremarkable in that we never encounter problems with it.