Anybody have experience using non-oracle JDK’s? Th...

# multiplatform

[kpgalligan]

Anybody have experience using non-oracle JDK’s? Thinking something like Amazon Corretto or similar. You can still get the oracle jdk, but you need to make an oracle account, and the new license notices is kind of off putting. I’m thinking for iOS devs (and others) unfamiliar with the Java world, the whole Oracle install process would be best avoided.

[Arkadii Ivanov]

I believe account is required only for LTS

[kpgalligan]

I don’t know. I just went to the download page on oracle and it took me to their account sign up page.

[Arkadii Ivanov]

I downloaded yesterday a non-LTS jdk 13 without sign-up

[diesieben07]

I highly recommend to use https://adoptopenjdk.net/. They have open-source licensed OpenJDK binaries for everything you need

[Arkadii Ivanov]

BTW I'm using open jdk boundled with AS

[diesieben07]

This avoids any potential legal problems with the Oracle Java

[kpgalligan]

@Arkadii Ivanov I have 2 dev machines. On this one I have JDK 8, but on the other one I have v11 for some reason, and intellij and/or gradle complains on all new project opens. Ideally the install would be v8, but that takes you to account sign up

[diesieben07]

Oracle Java requires a license for anything but the latest version. That's why I recommend to switch to OpenJDK

[diesieben07]

(Which is the basis for Oracle Java anyways)

[kpgalligan]

Just went through v8 download process again. They definitely need you to create an oracle account, which is a crap process, even if their license is OK for dev. Assume the openjdk version works plenty fine?

[diesieben07]

I've been using it ever since Oracle changed their licensing and I haven't had a problem

[kpgalligan]

Looking at the ‘about’ page. This is pretty great. Thanks for the link!

[Arkadii Ivanov]

Yeah for v8 you need an account

[kpgalligan]

Trying to figure out least-worst process for iOS devs who may not have a JDK installed. Oracle made that flow pretty terrible, even if it’s still “free”.

[jdiaz]

I've been using Corretto since it launched and no issues. Anyways Amazon is also collaborating with openjdk so I'm unsure what would be the difference between both

[jw]

AdoptOpenJDK or sdkman. There's no reason to use an Oracle JDK anymore

[jdiaz]

Definitely, sdkman is so helpful

[ian.shaun.thomas]

There's no reason to use an Oracle JDK anymore

some masochist is going to tell you to hold their beer

[Konstantin Petrukhnov]

openjdk8 don't have e.g. javafx bundled with it

[Konstantin Petrukhnov]

some applications may need it

[Konstantin Petrukhnov]

if i recall correctly last good one from oracle is jdk8-202 (which is about 1 year old)