Oracle will no longer provide long-term support for the Oracle JDK after Java 11. It has changed to a time-based release cycle and will now charge for the Oracle JDK in production. For free users, they will need to switch to OpenJDK builds which Oracle will provide biannual feature updates and bug fixes for. Other companies like Azul and IBM provide paid support for both long-term releases and interim releases of OpenJDK/JDK to help with the transition.

1. Java terms of
use changes

2. General problem statement
1. Oracle stops providing free long-term supported Oracle JDK since Java 11
2. Oracle changes licensing since Java 11
3. Oracle changes Java release cycle from feature-based release to time-based release

3. Two major areas of change
LICENSING MODEL SUPPORT MODEL
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4. Licensing model
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Prior to JDK 11:
• OpenJDK – GPLv2 + CPE
• Oracle JDK – BCL with field-of-use restrictions / Oracle Commercial License.
Can use in dev, testing or prod for free, if not using certain commercial
features
Starting from JDK 11:
• OpenJDK - GPLv2 + CPE
• Oracle JDK - Oracle Commercial License for production use. Can use this in
development and testing for free, but if you use it in production, you have to
pay for it .

5. This has different implications for different groups
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PAID FREE
Oracle JDK 3-rd Party
Vendors
Oracle JDK OpenJDK

6. Paid customers
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Using Oracle JDK:
• Having used Oracle Commercial License before
• Receiving Oracle JDK as part of bigger application suites (e.g. Oracle Fusion
Middleware)
Using 3-rd party JDK distributions from:
• Azul
• IBM
• Red Hat

7. Paid customers with Oracle JDK
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Nothing really changes for this group except some billing breakdown details

8. Java perpetual licences & support
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Named
User Plus
Software Update
License &
Support
Processor
License
Software Update
License & Support
Java SE Advanced
Desktop
$40 $8.80 - -
Java SE Advanced $100 $22 $5000 $1100
Java SE Suite $300 $66 $15000 $3300

9. Server Java subscription
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10. Desktop Java subscription
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11. Paid customers with OpenJDK based distributions
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Nothing really changes. Vendors will continue building their distributions on top of OpenJDK

12. Free customers: OpenJDK
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Things will change for better:
• Differences between codebases become smaller, although still exist
• Former commercial tools and features now going open-source (Flight Recorder, Mission
Control, target date is late 2018)
Still some minor differences in:
• Browser plug-in, WebStart
• Cryptographic framework
• Oracle JDK has some instrumentation code for interaction with other Oracle
commercial tools

13. Free customers: Oracle JDK
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No sense in using Oracle JDK in dev and test only. Need to switch to OpenJDK builds

14. Release model: Prior to Java 11
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15. Support model: Prior to Java 11
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16. Oracle Release & Support model: Java 11 and further
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17. Oracle Release & Support model: Java 11 and further
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• Using Oracle OpenJDK – Oracle will provide feature release every 6 months,
with 2 update releases containing bug fixes and security fixes. There will be 3
months period between 2 update releases which should be used for
migrating. Early Access Builds will be available for this purpose. More here.

18. Support model: main aspects. (actual for JDK 8+)
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• Source for binary distributions
• Bug fixes and security patches provision
• Paid support (not the same as patches provision)

19. Where to download binary distributions
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OpenJDK
OracleJDK – paid
Oracle OpenJDK - free
OpenJDK + OpenJ9 - paid
AdoptOpenJDK
Free builds
OpenJDK + RHEL – paid?*
patchesbuilds

20. Critical bugs and security fixes
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Process around security issues will be managed by the newly formed vulnerability group
The Vulnerability Group is a secure, private forum in which trusted members of the OpenJDK Community
receive reports of vulnerabilities in OpenJDK code bases, review them, collaborate on fixing them, and
coordinate the release of such fixes. The Group also discusses other OpenJDK security-related issues, as
needed.
Note: there is no clear understainding on how quickly security pathes will be merged into OpenJDK codebase.
It means that potentially OpenJDK won't have cutting edge security protection. For now OpenJDK is led by
Oracle.

21. Builds for less popular platforms
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Oracle's builds support only following platforms:
• Linux x64
• MacOS x64
• Windows x64
• Solaris SPARC x64
ARM binaries could be found from AdoptOpenJDK for Java 11 with HotSpot.
Mostly all platform which were covered by Oracle's JDK previously are now available
in AdoptOpenJDK builds. AdoptOpenJDK provides Java 8 builds on 7 platforms with
Hotspot and more platforms with OpenJ9 (including Windows 32 bit).

22. Support options
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• AdoptOpenJDK
o AdoptOpenJDK doesn’t offer paid support. It simply provides well-tested binaries from OpenJDK
and Eclipse OpenJ9 upstream projects.
• Azul
o Azul offers an option for all companies that do not want to skip all Java SE versions between LTS
releases but cannot switch to the newest version every 6 months. Next, to the support for all LTS
releases, where Azul provides 1 more year of support than Oracle, Azul offers support for so-
called Medium Term Support (MTS) releases for their Zulu JDK.
• IBM
o For Java SE 7 and 8, IBM still provides security updates and bugfixes. The IBM support lifecycle will
continue to be updated.
• Red Hat
o Red Hat won’t provide Java SE 9 and 10 releases. The next distribution that Red Hat plans to
release is OpenJDK 11 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Currently, Java SE 8 is the supported release
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the company will support it until 2023.

23. Azul Support terms (including MTS)
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24. Azul Support pricing
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