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Java is essentially open source enough that you can ignore oracle. All the development of java happen in openjdk, of which oracle is a contributor (along with red hat and many others). Oracle’s java is just an openjdk distribution, with some additional proprietary bits.

Pulling the oracle card when java is mentioned is a useless stunt.



The OpenJDK has come a long way, but is still less than ideal.

Do you actually use that option at enterprise scale? =3


Everywhere I’ve worked has used Eclipse Temurin or another open source release: the Oracle JVM isn’t used all that often because of license issues.


Ditto. Even things like Java flight recorder are open source now and work with any JDK distribution.


YOLO =3

https://openjdk.org/groups/vulnerability/advisories/

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?product=openjdk&vendor=oracle


I’ve always used openjdk or amazon’s flavour (i think it’s called “corretto”?).

It’s much better than ideal.


If it spans your use-cases, than that is great. =3




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