Charles, Zulu == Azul's JDK correct? https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/
-Eric On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:51 AM Charles Monteiro <charles.monte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric: > > > I don’t see Azul on seaman but I do see the Java feature from zulu.org > ,so that is what you mean right ? thanks > > -- > Charles Monteiro > > > On March 8, 2018 at 9:06:01 AM, Eric Helgeson (erichelge...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > Hi, > > It used to be the case that OpenJDK and OracleJDK had quite a few > differences in terms of performance and compatibility. But that is no > longer the case in my experience & should be no technical differences in > the near future: > > [1] > [The] intent is that within a few releases there should be no > technical differences between OpenJDK builds and Oracle JDK binaries. > > In fact many IaaS platforms can only run OpenJDK due to licensing - so if > you're running Grails on AWS Elastic Beanstalk you're already using OpenJDK > (which we do). > > Since AWS uses OpenJDK I've been using Azul on my Mac (via sdkman) for > quite some time and have not noticed any incompatibilities or differences > when running Grails or other small groovy apps/scripts. > > With Oracle's new release cadence and no overlapping support timelines[2] > - I don't see how any non-oracle-paying java users could use anything but > OpenJDK. For me I don't want to spend time upgrading my JDK - would rather > ship customers features :) > > Just my 2c & experience, > -Eric > > PS: Maybe worth reaching out to Azul and asking what tests they did to > mention Scala - and to add Groovy there too :D > > [1] https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b850192745fb > <https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b850192745fb> > [2] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*vkAzxUI6lgP5sH7qfbNEqQ.png > <https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*vkAzxUI6lgP5sH7qfbNEqQ.png> > (via [1]) > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:09 AM mg <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would be interested to hear if anyone has experience with using >> alternative JVMs with Groovy, especially Azul (https://www.azul.com/) ? >> >> Licensing costs for long term OpenJDK support seem to be much lower, and >> the JVM has additional benefits such as an elastic memory model (JVM memory >> is dynamically allocated/deallocated from the os), continuous concurrent >> garbage collection without freeze-the-world fallback, and application >> startup (warmup) time improvements. >> But I am worried about Groovy compatibility (they only mention Scala >> explicitly on the web page)... >> >> Cheers, >> mg >> >> >> -- > > -Eric Helgeson > > -- -Eric Helgeson
