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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:08AM (#26821386)
> IMHO, the best approach is to avoid anything Oracle touches and stick to OpenJDK. For a lot of corporate environments, that's anathema though.

I thought that was just the obvious path; why would companies not like it?

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by offtop5 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:14AM (#26821455)
Open Jdk tends to create random and strange issues.

At that point you might as well pitch migrating the tech stack to .net

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by pjmlp on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:18AM (#26821506)
Except that since several releases Oracle Java is basically OpenJDK + Support.
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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by p_l on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:36AM (#26821734)
And some of those issues show up when migrating to recent Oracle Java, too.
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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by pjmlp on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:54AM (#26822031)
Depends what you mean by recent.

For me recent means JDK 14 or later.

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:18AM (#26821498)
That would be somewhat odd; isn't Oracle building off the openjdk as well?

And I have trouble crediting the idea that moving to openjdk is anywhere near the effort to move to a completely different language+platform, even if there are differences.

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by offtop5 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:20AM (#26821536)
To be fair I haven't seriously touched java in about 4 years. I do remember Android studio explicitly warning users to avoid Open Jdk

My second point was a joke, still I wouldn't be the one to rock the boat. If anything is even slightly off after switching to open JDK you'd need to justify it

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:43AM (#26821857)
> I do remember Android studio explicitly warning users to avoid Open Jdk

Once upon a time maybe, but today:

> A copy of the latest OpenJDK comes bundled with Android Studio 2.2 and higher, and this is the JDK version we recommend you use for your Android projects.

- https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/studio-config#jdk

> If anything is even slightly off after switching to open JDK you'd need to justify it

"We don't have to license it from Oracle" should justify a lot.

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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by offtop5 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:49AM (#26821937)
I'll admit when I'm wrong. Thanks for the info
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