In this article, I'll discuss: the technical and support implications of the migration, what developers and operations teams need to know, and solutions to potential challenges.
(See also Oracle's blog entry & licensing).Īn alternative is to use OpenJDK and effort is underway to make them fully interchangeable. A number of companies who are currently using Oracle JDK in production are making the decision to switch to OpenJDK or have already done so.Īndrew Haley (Red Hat's Java Platform Lead Engineer) recently wrote a great article on the direction of OpenJDK. GPL + Classpath Exception licensed (free for any use, subject to that license) are current made available by Oracle through.
Oracle has announced that the Oracle JDK 8 builds released after Jan 2019 cease to be free for commercial use.
