[Info-vax] Java on VMS, was: Re: So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/21/2019 8:37 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/21/2019 7:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2019-07-21, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> As I explained in that long post there is really not that
>>> big change: Oracle simplified from having a commercial version,
>>> a free close source version and a free open source version to only
>>> have a commercial version and a free open source version.
>>>
>>
>> The major change is that on Windows you used to get a nicely
>> packaged and known good version of Java for free directly from
>> Oracle and directly ready to install by the end user.
>>
>> Now, Windows sites are either going to have to choose a vendor out
>> of one of the various organisations supplying OpenJDK and hope the
>> oraganisation they choose can be trusted or they are going to have
>> to start paying Oracle for Java.
>>
>> The version of OpenJDK for Windows from the Oracle website is not
>> packaged in a Windows installer (or at least it wasn't the last time
>> I looked).
> 
> java.net which Oracle links to only have ZIP.
> 
> AdoptOpenJDK provide both ZIP and installer. And AdoptOpenJDK
> is backed by IBM, Amazon, Microsoft and Redhat.
> 
> Amazon Coretto also has both.
> 
> Azul Zulu also got both.
> 
> There are options.
> 
> But OK - some may be scared a bit by having to download from a new site.
> 
> I would expect most Java developers to prefer the ZIP.

The real reason to ditch java.net download is that they do
not honor the LTS distinction.

They only have the LTS versions for 6 months similar to the
non-LTS version.

Bad bad bad.

I can only recommend using AdoptOpenJDK.

They support LTS versions for at least 4 years, but intend to do
builds as long as anyone creates fixes.

Arne