Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f...
by Tostino on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:06AM
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I mean, sometimes managers are uninformed and say stupid things?
You can use any of the other jdk builds from the plethora of other vendors and have zero interaction with Oracle.
I absolutely hate Oracle as a company, but they've really done a good job with Java stewardship. They actually open sourced the entire language / jdk and a lot of the tooling that used to be proprietary.
They still love to play the old Oracle tricks, so I'd rather not use any of their distributions. But the actual work that they do on the ecosystem has been a positive in my opinion.
Re:Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the f...
by Arwill on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:50PM
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You don't have to tell all this to me, or try to convince me. I was just describing what the general attitude is. Oracle's behaviour is a risk, even if Java is open source.
You can use any of the other jdk builds from the plethora of other vendors and have zero interaction with Oracle.
I absolutely hate Oracle as a company, but they've really done a good job with Java stewardship. They actually open sourced the entire language / jdk and a lot of the tooling that used to be proprietary.
They still love to play the old Oracle tricks, so I'd rather not use any of their distributions. But the actual work that they do on the ecosystem has been a positive in my opinion.