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It's not new at all. It's not economical for anyone to provide general engineering support for any JDK for all time. People aren't up in arms that JDK 1.1 isn't
by jacques_chester 9y ago
It's not new at all. It's not economical for anyone to provide general engineering support for any JDK for all time. People aren't up in arms that JDK 1.1 isn't being supported.
Companies who won't shift of a JDK know this, that's why they pay for the privilege. They pay Oracle, or they pay someone to support an OpenJDK like Red Hat.
- coldtea 9y ago>It's not new at all. It's not economical for anyone to provide general engineering support for any JDK for all time. People aren't up in arms that JDK 1.1 isn't being supported. It's new for Java. We don't care, for the purposes of the discussion, if it has been how things are since forever at SomeOtherProductOrLanguage. We're not taking about the relative novelty of this release model (or its merits), but about how things are different now for Java releases.
- jacques_chester 9y agoOracle did this for 7 and I believe 6 as well. Java 8's time ran out, it was as simple as that.
- coldtea 9y agoNope, it's a new announcement. This is not about 8 running out either, it's about 9 (and onwards) having a few months update cycles (and Oracle updates and security patches). Previously that was years on end.
- jacques_chester 9y agoI was confused by everyone focusing on 8.