I'm in no way trying to cut off this discussion (I'm learning things, so thanks to those who are sharing knowledge), but I do want to make sure we answer the OP's question.
ActiveMQ does not distribute the JVM, nor require a user to use any particular JVM. The pre-requisites for installation ( http://activemq.apache.org/getting-started.html#GettingStarted-Pre-InstallationRequirements) say that a JVM is required to be installed prior to installing ActiveMQ, which means that the choice of JVM, and of support options for that JVM, is still entirely the right, and the responsibility, of the user. So until/unless ActiveMQ changes our packaging approach and begins bundling the JVM, ActiveMQ will not change in response to this change by Oracle. Having addressed that we can go back to discussing the maintenance lifestyle and options for the JVM, independent of ActiveMQ itself. Tim On Sep 16, 2018 4:11 PM, "Alain Rastoul" <alain.rest...@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you for your comments and answers. Yes, I understood that oracle would commit to latest openjdk, and as said by mark reinhold in "who is in charge" talk, that they 'want java to be around in 2030' :) but as you said too, they will not commit to any maintenance branch, and that is the point: backports and LTS. I maintain legacy software and could not update my application every 6 months with a new major java version : ok for my code, but I don't know about glassfish?, spring? other libraries I use like mongo client, sql jdbc driver? then update old production servers hell ... no way with the same major java version it is ok once a year if necessary for patches of course. Nothing exceptional. After digging a bit, I found a medium post with mention of a twitter message talking specifically about LTS release provisioning by adoptjdk (the link you gave). https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b850192745fb I did not see it first time but in the adoptopenjdk/support/roadmap section there is a clear mention of LTS release supported for 4 years. https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html The bug fixes backport is not very detailed but there is a clear message of intention. Let's see how it works. As you said this is where maintainers have to step in. This adoptopenjdk initiative is really nice. bests, Alain
