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A choice requires an active decision. Some companies prefer to use the "proper" version of Java, and have allocated a budget to pay Oracle. In other companies,
by oxfordmale 4y ago
A choice requires an active decision. Some companies prefer to use the "proper" version of Java, and have allocated a budget to pay Oracle. In other companies, no choice may have been made until the Oracle auditors knock at the door.
- pjmlp 4y agoOpenJDK and Oracle JDK are both the "proper" version of Java, developed by the same company. Only one of them has support, and support isn't free beer.
- oxfordmale 4y agoBeyond support, Oracle JDK provides much better performance than OpenJDK in responsiveness and JVM performance. That is why I referred to it as Java's "proper" version (in quotes). However, in reality, it hardly makes a difference.
- exabrial 4y agoI thought that gap was closed and was really just relevant to non-x86 architectures... I'm not betting any money on it :) but if you did happen to have a link I'd appreciate it
- pjmlp 4y agoThe difference is mostly on the tooling and support. https://www.baeldung.com/oracle-jdk-vs-openjdk https://www.baeldung.com/oracle-jdk-vs-openjdk