On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Supreet Sethi <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi all >> I guess most of the Linux distributions distribute openjdk. I also use >> openjdk primarily. but there are situations sometimes where oracle/sun's >> jdk is recommended. like these days I am working on Hadoop/Hbase. >> >> > Most distributions carry both openjdk, oracle jdk and several other > implementations. Unless that has changed in recent ones. > > >> I am little reluctant to switch to oracle jdk. >> >> > Both are equally capable platforms like Satya pointed out and whatever > works for you is great. > > > > >> would anyone tell me what is drawback of openjdk? openjdk is old enough >> still things are written on top of sun's jdk. >> >> > I have not seen any comprehensive example of code written specifically for > Sun JDK. Although one could write Sun JDK specific code, most specific code > can be converted to platform agnostic by using Apache Commons library. Open > JDK "is" open source version of Sun JDK. Sun JDK contains extra proprietary > libraries. Oracle also may have and is capable of introducing optimizations > which may or may not be available in Open JDK. Having said that, I have not > found Open JDK any less capable. > > > >> I see openjdk will be adopted in future, Am I wrong if I think so? >> >> > I think you will be looking at both versions being available side by side > for very long time. > > > > >> or if there is very little difference between these two then should I be >> flexible to choose between these two according to situation? >> >> I would suggest just choose one and stick with it for lack of surprises. > > thanks satya and supreet -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
