
Migrating from Oracle JDK to OpenJDK on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: What you need to know
Oracle has announced that the Oracle JDK 8 builds released after Jan 2019 cease to be free for commercial use. GPL + Classpath Exception licensed (free for any use, subject to that license) are current made available by Oracle through http://jdk.java.net/11/. (See also Oracle’s blog entry & licensing).
An alternative is to use OpenJDK and effort is underway to make them fully interchangeable. A number of companies who are currently using Oracle JDK in production are making the decision to switch to OpenJDK or have already done so.
Andrew Haley (Red Hat’s Java Platform Lead Engineer) recently wrote a great article on the direction of OpenJDK.
In this article, I’ll discuss: the technical and support implications of the migration, what developers and operations teams need to know, and solutions to potential challenges.
I’ll go over the Red Hat support model and technical details of how to install, update, and run different OpenJDK versions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7 systems. I’ll also discuss the operations of Java applications (such as Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) and other servers) on top of OpenJDK.
While this article is about OpenJDK on RHEL, I should also point out that OpenJDK for Windows can also be downloaded from developers.redhat.com. This lets you use the same JDK for Linux and Windows.
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