Since the faster release cycle that came with Java 9, you really should not architecture anything running on the JVM if you cannot swap the distribution easily.

Since the faster release cycle that came with Java 9, you really should not architecture anything running on the JVM if you cannot swap the distribution easily. Even if you're on an LTS version from a good vendor (like RHEL), non-trivial patches get backported and can sometimes introduce weird performance regressions.