OpenJDK now available for Windows

Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by lmm on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:22AM (#13236262)

Given that those stuck on JDK6 tend to be large corporations with deep pockets (and often a policy requirement to have a commercial support contract for all their software anyway), I think that's precisely the part they wouldn't want to do for free.

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Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by davidgerard on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:32AM (#13237437)

Our use case is a proprietary app that still requires Java 6. Fortunately, OpenJDK 6 is still supported and security-fixed (well, backported patches) in Debian/Ubuntu.

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Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by lmm on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:19AM (#13238231)

OpenJDK 6 won't be around forever. I strongly advise figuring out an exit strategy for that app.

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Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by davidgerard on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:51PM (#13240292)

well, yes :-) It's an old version of Quova, an IP geolocator from Neustar. The new version is way better, but we can't be bothered rewriting the stuff that uses it until we have to.

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Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by lmm on Friday December 23, 2016 @07:25AM (#13244408)

Java 6 EOL should be your "have to". It will be easier to fix before you get a hard deadline, and it's easier to upgrade by one version twice than by two versions once.

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