I'm a little late to the discussion, but thought I could some useful information.
Oracle Java now requires a paid license. OpenJDK Java from java.net is free, but old versions will not get security and bug-fix updates as soon as a new version is available, which is not a nice situation if you want stability. Oracle Java has been just a supported build of OpenJDK for some time, so they should be extremely compatible. Several companies have promised to support OpenJDK 8 and 11 as stable distributions for quite a few years. Amazon Corretto, Azul Zulu, RedHat (on RHEL) are some examples. Users of Oracle JDK should migrate to one of these. Regards, Satya ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tee23a635cfb91b5f-Mb23a9afec6673795a68cf081 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
