Re:Thank You, Guido
by chaostheory on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:55PM
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How are people adapting to Oracle’s licensing changes?
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The biggest change I've seen is that people are using OpenJDK itself (rather than Oracle's official distribution) a lot more, not only from the official OpenJDK distribution, but also the new Amazon's Corretto version, Azul's Zulu (the one I use at work, which has been backporting lots of security improvements to Java 8, which is very useful!), RedHat's OpenJDK, and even AdoptOpenJDK, all of which are completely free and open source...
If you want to quickly and easily switch between distributions, I highly recommend https://sdkman.io/ - it lets you install and use any of the above mentioned JVMs with a simple CLI... e.g. `sdk use 13.0.1.j9-adpt` or `sdk use java 8.0.232-zulu`.
I would guess that Oracle's JVM popularity has gone down from around 75% of Java users, to something like 20% after the changes, even though I don't actually have the numbers.
Re:Thank You, Guido
by jakebasile on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @02:11PM
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It's not really that big a deal in my experience. We switched to the Corretto[1] distribution of the OpenJDK from Amazon and it was seamless.
If you want newer versions of the JDK, you can get them directly from Oracle[2] still, or from alternatives like AdoptOpenJDK[3].